i would ask why networked platforms are facilitating the growth of reactionaries and wonder if that’s part of their business model
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Ha he blocked me.
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, it is. Do you have any qualms supporting the politics and tactics of the owners of Instagram?
sep 1, 2025, 3:24 am • 9 0 • view
literally what does this mean…..
sep 1, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, all Meta products. Privileged that I don't have to be on their products.
sep 1, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
Judd, please…give it up…
sep 1, 2025, 3:33 am • 6 0 • view
instagram isn’t my business partner
sep 1, 2025, 3:26 am • 84 0 • view
Oh my god Youre all Americans, and from where I sit that makes you all genocide supporting, warmongering, lower than shit fuckcorns Talk about the narcissism of small differences, yeesh
sep 1, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
So you're saying you subscribe to same idea of collective guilt that Israel imposes on Palestinians?
sep 1, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
The violence of oppressors is not the same as the violence of the oppressed Dont you have a dead troop to cry over, or something?
sep 1, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, youre a lawyer No wonder you're extra stupid
sep 1, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
All users of Instagram help them make money. Posters drive people to the app to see the content, and while they are there they view ads.
sep 1, 2025, 3:31 am • 27 1 • view
You are the product it's not just free
sep 1, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
why are you trying to create 30 shitty false equivalences instead of addressing the substance of the argument against partnering with substack
sep 1, 2025, 3:32 am • 30 0 • view
The substance of my argument was the original poster should have disclosed that the information was from the CEO of Beehiiv and the info was misleading. Thats it.
sep 1, 2025, 3:35 am • 9 0 • view
i didn't ask about the substance of your argument. but reading the post it doesn't seem like the info is misleading at all. creators are unable to opt out of in-app payments that will give apple control over the user-payment relationship in exactly the way the diagram shows
sep 1, 2025, 3:42 am • 2 0 • view
Judd Legume
sep 1, 2025, 3:39 am • 4 0 • view
Because unlike Marisa, who self hosts her actual reporting Judd...relies on the Nazis for his.
sep 1, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
Oh he muted you with the quickness lol
sep 1, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
Judd, you do good work but from a lowly nobody, this is not the fight to draw a line in the sand for Its like cory enshittification doctorow who i really respect yet at this point has jedi mind tricked himself into finding really hairsplitting reasons not to join bluesky (last i checked)
sep 1, 2025, 3:39 am • 5 0 • view
being a user of a platform is not the same as being in direct business with them.
sep 1, 2025, 3:55 am • 52 1 • view
I don't understand what you mean by "in direct business." Are you saying he's an investor?
sep 1, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
sharing 10% of every subscription is a business relationship
sep 1, 2025, 4:00 am • 43 0 • view
You mean because he has to pay a fee? Like a checkmark on twitter? This isn't a convincing argument to me.
sep 1, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
To me, "in business" means signatures on an LLC or LP agreement. If we're gonna just six-degrees-of-separation this shit, it's a waste of time arguing over. We got much bigger problems. And I hate substack. Anyway, love both of your work. Wherever you happen to publish it (for now)
sep 1, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
Being in a profit-sharing relationship with substack is being "in business" with them moreso than being a mere user of Instagram is being "in business" with them, yes? That was Kabas' counterpoint to Legum's point, and it seems a fair one.
sep 1, 2025, 4:12 am • 9 0 • view
I don't find this convincing. There are legitimate reasons that relationship exists. If Kabas had a proportional impact on Instagram's resources that Legum has on SS's, we'd see a similar arrangement. It's a weird thing to suggest someone is a nazi over is my point, and it seems a fair one too.
sep 1, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view
Do you consider an author and a publisher only to be in a direct business relationship if the author's words are printed on paper?
sep 1, 2025, 4:09 am • 6 0 • view
Obviously not. But is your argument that everyone with a blue check on twitter is in a "business relationship" with Elon Musk?
sep 2, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
You tell them Judd.....with you here all the way.
sep 1, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
The argument for using Substack is the same 'lesser of two evils' argument we have been hearing about in other contexts and it isn't any more compelling to me here.
sep 1, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view