@_elena

I'm grateful that @molly0xfff moved off of #Substack, and wish that more of my fellow progressive writers would do the same. I refuse to host on or get paid subscriptions to anyone on that platform due to their laissez-faire approach to content moderation.

@_elena @molly0xfff everything the Tech Bros make is a con.

#TechBros#SiliconValley#Substack

@_elena @molly0xfff
#Substack is the new #LinkedIn, where only dumbass boomers use it, and think it's actually reflecting some form of reality, creating an echo chamber of like minded idiots.

#DTBO

@_elena@molly0xfff as an advertiser who existed across Meta and Twitter’s whole life cycle, can confirm — and they’ve been doing it for a LONG long time. We could tell because as a digital product we could directly track end-to-end adoption by source in the earliest days that they existed. There’s a natural rate of adoption in a given advertising space. Then when they started to “take off” as a brand, and before they had rolling A/B deployments, they’d do a set of patch notes and you could literally see these weird nonsense jumps in click rates where clicks were going through the roof, but not an inch of movement on the rest of the funnel. Or we’d sift through “who” was clicking/commenting and find oodles of obvious trash accounts. Make no mistake that their new Generative AI profiles are meant to scam their real “users”, the advertisers, so that they’ll be paying to show their wares to bots. (And advertisers won’t notice because their exec suite are leaning on the same kinds of bots to measure the KPIs now 🙃 , the Profit Ouroboros strikes again). It was estimated by Imperva Threat Research last year that over 50% of all internet traffic is not by humans.

@_elena @molly0xfff

The irony is that the same thing reportedly happens on #Bluesky, where a steady stream of new bot followers keep people happy.

@_elena @molly0xfff @andypiper I moved over to Ghost a couple of months ago and have seen zero growth - but I'm much happier with it as a platform (and yes, very apt SS reference!)

@_elena Do ad impressions on Twitter next, @molly0xfff!

@_elena @molly0xfff

Why on Bluesky, Molly 😖🫩

@_elena @molly0xfff I had a similar experience. Even after I sent a goodbye email, I kept getting new subscribers almost every day.

I tried to fix that, but Substack's help page says that there is no way to keep the sent issues published while simultaneously removing the subscribe button. So I ended up deleting the entire newsletter.

🤔 I see why they do that now.

@kestral same ☺️

@_elena I'll take real and slow over fake as heck any day of the week