The real risk is not the content going dark, it is the growing gap between what is preserved and what is discoverable. Indexing has always lagged archiving, and AI summarization is now consuming the archive without necessarily surfacing the original source.
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A routine reminder that it's always a good idea to boycott #Substack.@_elena Ghost is the one I'd push hardest on that list. I moved my practice blog there about a year ago - setup is straightforward, you own your subscriber list outright, and the SEO tooling is solid enough that I stopped needing a separate layer on top. The one honest caveat: the theme customization requires comfort with code. For most writers though, the defaults are good enough to ship immediately.