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Jeremy Cherfas

Why Substack is nudging you to follow your ex, your hookups, randos who aren’t even writers

I've not quite given up on trying to persuade people I respect off Substack, so I keep on stacking ammo.

They’re building audiences on borrowed land, subject to algorithmic whims and platform policies they cannot directly influence, while helping to subsidize the infrastructure that promotes their ideological opponents. 

See?