Substack is now doing age verification, and using Persona, the same company Discord was gonna use.

[tinyrabbit@floss.social]

@notsle @writefreely "instantly after 7 days" Sounds contradictory. Is it instantly or after 7 days? (Rhetorical question; we all know it's never)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@notsle @writefreely also Ghost and even WordPress. Check

You Should Probably Leave Substack

You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

How to Leave Substack. (leavesubstack.com)

for a list of alternatives

[77nn@goto.77nn.it]

@Starcross @writefreely @notsle

Because that's how state  surveillance works: they do not need a reason, they just enforce.

[atecon@mastodon.social]

@notsle @writefreely

I never understood the hype about #substack . Glad that it got further enshitified and some people started realising that.

#unplugtrump #unplugbigtech

[rycochet@furs.social]

@notsle @writefreely I, for one, am shocked that a company that platforms and promotes nazi blogs as a means for the scumbags behind them to fundraise, woild use a company run by far right financier, Peter Thiel, to implement a policy favoured by the far right as a means to censor queer content.

[whitehotaru@masto.ai]

@atecon @notsle @writefreely in communications we see a tendency towards edited media. Social media is a stream of content, where people have no guidance where to put each piece in a bigger context. A blog or a newsletter put things into a bigger context and provide guidance for your thoughts.

[atecon@mastodon.social]

@whitehotaru @notsle @writefreely

I am not against blogs/ newsletters, and totally understand their purpose.

I just do not understand why the mass of people frequently moves from one investor-driven platform to another one (e.g. X -> BlueSky)

[danielauer@mastodon.social]

@notsle @writefreely Why does everyone use Persona? Age verification is not trivial, but technically it has not been a major challenge for many years. Accordingly, there are many companies offering solutions for this. Some of them are in the EU and must comply with strict EU data protection regulations. I am a software developer and have integrated such solutions myself.

[andii@climatejustice.social]

@notsle @writefreely
I'm just not doing it. I hope their algorithm 'notices' that there are people just ceasing to engage at that point. I don't want to interact with stuff that requires age verification anyway.

[mikewas@esq.social]

@notsle @writefreely This popped up full screen in my Masto feed and almost gave me a heart attack. It took me a minute to figure out what it was for.