But even with the stylistic changes DU remains my favorite political haunt on the net..
I tried Substack a bit and I still like to support individual writers or journalists.
But at the end of the day its moderation, security etc. are opaque and apolitical (and we all know what apolitical really means from the tech side..libertarian nutcase usually).
Here at least I can be sure that no ransomware creep or meninist or qanon adjacent type can target posters absent an outright hack. Trust in the admins drives this place. Trust is increasingly the most important thing in the world to me.
That said, Substack is okay for what it is. I have never been on Twitter etc. It was my
first experience with an essentially unmoderated space. It is okay for what it is. I have mixed feelings sometimes re: excessive policing (even here most times when I vote on the "jury", I usually vote to let a post stand) but creeps aren't going to self regulate and it is just this unsolvable problem where a subset of assholes and creeps will destroy anything that is trust based.
I am okay with a lot of offensive speech/art etc. where it is an art form. What I don't like is disingenuousness-which is the problem with a lot of this libertarian bs around free speech and well a lot of shit on and off the net.
Whatever you are doing, you have to be basically honest about it..above all with yourself. Honesty forms the basis of all trust. Or it is just a series of continuously moving goalposts and false equivalences. The world we live in kills satire basically.
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