PieFed.caSubstack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog
Sunshine (she/her)
www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-pro…
2 Comments
Comments from other communities
"I'm not a Nazi, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks."
--Substack, probably
ParadoxSubstack just annoying as can be anyway, with the constant spammy pop-ups about subscribed to my newsletter and whatever the hell else. Absolutely atrocious blogging platform
Can't criticize unless an alternative is provided tho, can you?
wizardbeardYou absolutely can and should regardless.
I almost fully agree
Idk about 'should' just out of paranoia that I can imagine a case where criticizing without sufficient contrast or a consistent-enough background of otherness, could potentially have unintended consequences or surprisingly negative overall moral impacts
Or maybe just paranoid idek
Lol, I can absolutely call a website (or argument) awful or absolutely moronic without providing an alternative. Especially when we're talking about Nazi supporters (which substack objectively is and has been for years).
As a wise man once said, I don't need to be a pilot to know a helicopter doesn't belong in a tree.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but couldn't you just use like... Fucking SquareSpace or some shit, and just make a blog on your own site?
Fucking watch me.
Nazis bad. <- note the period that makes that a full sentence.
Don’t use substack. Or Twitter.
nullLol what? Are you saying Substack is the only blogging platform that exists?
Max-PI cringe everytime someone's like "subscribe to my Substack". No, fuck off with your substack, everyone knows they're nazi supporters, you're complicit.
MHLoppyThere is a deep irony covering this by writing about it.. on Substack
glorkonAs a German it's completely mind boggling to me that some societies tolerate an ideology that is responsible for plunging the world into its biggest humane catastrophe (so far), for the sake of free speech.
Nazi ideology wants to kill free speech. If you truly want to protect free speech, you have to at least limit it to all the things that do not threaten it.
Note that the largest Nazi groups today are in the "allied" nations that "won" WW2.
I read a piece (can't find the source now, sorry) that blamed this squarely on the lack of education and remorse given to the colonial backdrop in which WW2 was fought.
Most parts of the world view WW2 as very much a European war that was imposed on unwilling global participants. The axis powers lost and Germany has since tried its best to reinvent itself while acknowledging its chequered past (check out: Vergangenheitsbewältigung), but the allied powers failed to recognise their colonial atrocities. For example, British history textbooks will loosely allude to the British empire saying that they were once a dominating global entity, but will make absolutely no mention of the numerous massacres and genocides for which they were responsible.
When wars are framed as competitions rather than tragedies, you will see the emergence of false victors instead of acknowledging lost generations. This directly results in a poor public understanding of how bad ideas can fester and hollow out any society.
Over the decades since WW2, the popular culture of the allied countries has typically portrayed Nazis as caricatured crazy monsters. They are treated as strange, other, and non-human. This seems to have thoroughly undermined people's ability to recognize Nazism as a destructive force that lurks in people, whether they're German or American or any other nationality. Any society has the potential to fall into this. The unreflective complacency of the WW2 victors after defeating Nazis once has led to a complete lack of awareness that it's an ongoing job to keep your society from falling prey to fascists.
For a while the collective memory of those who lived through the war protected us, but when that generation died off the lessons were forgotten. Some fell into fascism without realizing it because they assumed they were by nature better than Nazis, while others failed to notice the threat until dangerously late.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you successfully gut public education.
what on earth are you talking about?? holocaust instruction is not "gutted," it increases year over year. the people you imagine are doing this gutting of public education are consistently some of the most vicious advocates for increasing holocaust instruction.
I'm talking just WW2 history in general, but OK.
I can just speak to US public schools, but ALL education has suffered from the gutting of our public education here, and that includes "holocaust instruction."
Looking at how many countries have started to have and even elect literal nazi parties, the education has been failing very widely and for a very long time (since WW2).
And Nazis still get free public promotion via ARD Sommertalk 😔
if we are being completely honest with ourselves, most people believe in free speech only in moderation. nazism is most certainly not the only ideology that sharply reduces free speech.
Germans saying this while their government is one of the biggest advocates for the ongoing genocide in Gaza will never not look stupid.
Free speech means free speech.
Otherwise you end up in a UK situation, where you can illegally enter without ID, but if you want to complain about someone illegally entering without ID you have to provide your ID to twitter
Wtf even is substack anyways?
_thisdotKinda like Medium or WordPress (the .com variant). Gives you your own subdomain and lets you blog. Their policy is that they absolutely will not editorialise anything. It's used by a lot of reputable good bloggers too
InfiniteHenchUnfortunately popular newsletter service that also puts your issues online to look like a blog. Has a lot of startup capital behind it so they've been paying some of their largest writers on top of subscriber revenue.
Big "marketplace of ideas" idiots who have allowed a lot of white supremacist and - as this and other situations exemplify - straight up Nazi content.
lacaio da inquisiçãoI deleted substack back when I randomly got porn in a push notification. You'd think they would address this - I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem good for them.
My only cursory knowledge about substack is that if someone has one they're insufferable.
Have yet to be wrong.
Deleted by moderator
teolanI've heard good things about ghost.
katy ✨
lime!It's a shame there are some people I like on there. I can live perfectly fine without ettingermentum though.
Venus_ZiegenfalleCentrists: "Oh so everyone you disagree with is a nazi?"
kingthrillgoreif i had a nickel for every time substack promoted a nazi blog.......
... i'd have a shitload of nickels.
Is there a substack self-hosted replacement
Ghost can be self-hosted. Even WordPress these days has newsletter and payment systems that sound fairly easy to drop in.
The main benefit of having a substack vs just running some blog software is that substack manages monetization/subscriptions for you. Hosting text-based content is very easy, but getting paid for it isn't.
rhabarbaBlogs?
Is substack a list of blog website ?
swelter_sparkon one hand, if you've been following news about Substack at all, this is not particularly surprising:
November 2023: Substack has a Nazi problem
January 2024: Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis
but on the other hand...this is the kind of thing that will be surprising to a lot of people who aren't savvy media consumers. if they thought about Substack at all they probably thought of it as just "that website with all the newsletters".
many of those people had the Substack app installed on their phones.
they got a push notification. the icon of the push notification was a swastika.
imagine looking at the list of notifications on your phone and just...seeing a whole-ass swastika.
I would compare this to the time Elon Musk called that cave diver in Thailand a "pedo guy". he was a shitbag before that, he was a shitbag after that, but that was still a watershed moment when a lot of people had the sudden realization of "oh, huh, this guy's a shitbag".
Substack has been a Nazi bar for a few years now. they started allowing customers of the bar to hang up flags on the front patio. today was the day they hung up a Nazi flag.
Arthur Bessesome more history:
April 2023: Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar
December 2023: Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign
Scroll ResponsiblyWhy don’t payment processors go after stuff like this🤔
Because there are no rich connected socialite interest groups that frequent same country clubs as the payment processor C suites who care about nazi’s, in fact, the same people pushing fash politics at sub stack probably go to the same country club.
Kissaki
ZierI have an addon called uBlacklist, it blocks substack from showing up in search results. And I have it blocked in uBlock Origin as well. Anyone on the Fediverse promoting it also gets blocked.
It's nice to erase nazis from your feed and their enablers.
pasdechance
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ also has a good list of grievances
My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term "Nazi", but... er yeah, I guess that's a Nazi blog alright.
synae[he/him]My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term "Nazi", but...
Since there's a lot of nazis around lately, I'm glad you're learning to control this reaction
Have you not been paying attention?
To what? 😶
Powderhorn
Archive link: https://archive.is/lQzS5
It's even worse, they're explicitly defending hosting Nazi blogs.
To say Substack is a massive disappointment would be an understatement. I'm constantly finding great pieces to read there from journalists with integrity who have been ostracized from legacy media and this shit is just another brutal slap in their faces for no sustainable reason. There's no angle to it.