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Amal Shah's avatar

A lot of people are operating under a myth that Substack has no algorithm.

This clarifies that.

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Sarah Hildebrandt's avatar

Thanks for pointing all this out. As a newbie here I really appreciate it.

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Gunnar Habitz's avatar

Good point here: „cleverly marketed writers’ platform“!.

The idea of „You own the email list“ only comes up as this is not the case with social media (eg LinkedIn).

Why not? Because in the view of LinkedIn a unique connection with a unique person us more worth than a random email address of that same person.

Subscribing to hundreds of Substacks gave me no other chance than to create a dedicated email address. Maybe because I work at a newsletter company…

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