Laura Jedeed

Oh wow lmao

You're absolutely right, gonna mute and touch grass

And still no answer as to what pure and virtuous job you do to pay your bills and avoid homelessness. I assume it must be an incredible gig

You're being an asshole and I don't think I want to hear from you. Enjoy your phone, your Amazon deliveries, your 401k, and paying your taxes

We all make our choices, absolutely. Thanks for not telling me I'm converting my followers to Naziism by being on the platform like certain other commenters -- I genuinely appreciate your response

I appreciate the response and the nuance you present. I respect your decision with working for a public school

I still think if you're typing this from a cell phone that you bought you've spent a lot of money supporting environmental destruction and unconscionably abusive labor practices

So have I

No answer as to what company you work for

Moving goalposts

Done.

bsky.app/profile/laur...

Does it exploit people? Does it involve the financial industry? Does it use things manufactured by impoverished workers overseas? Does it engage in deceptive advertising? Does it lobby for bills that make us all less free?

What does it DO

The push alert was sent to an undisclosed number of users' phones on Monday. Some people posted about the app alert on social media, confused why they were being prompted to subscribe to a Nazi blog. "I had [a swastika] pop up as a notification and I'm like, wtf is this? Why am I getting this?" one user said. "I was quite alarmed and blocked it." Some users speculated that Substack had issued the push alert intentionally in order to generate engagement or that it was tied to Substack's recent fundraising round. Substack is primarily funded by Andreessen Horowitz, a firm whose founders have pushed extreme far right rhetoric.

This is fucking terrible

1) this screenshot is itself from a Substack(linked)

2) undisclosed number of users, once. That does NOT justify it or make it ok. That DOES make it a gross exaggeration to say all my subscribers are getting pushed Nazi shit all the time

open.substack.com/pub/taylorlo...

Ok that doesn't answer my question: what does your company do?

Also no, not every one of my followers is getting fed Nazi bullshit. That's an insane take. Citation fucking needed

Where do you work?

Where do you work.

This is a 1:1 comparison. You want me to quit my job. Where do you work.

Also. And I do apologize for ranting. The job thing is a 1:1 comparison. It is literally the same

I should quit my job? You first.

People love to pick and choose non-negotiable boycotts based on what they themselves use and don't use. Phone is necessary for my life therefore it's ok. I don't make my living on Substack therefore fuck you

No.

You don't get to do something so much worse and be self-righteous. Or, I mean, you can, but I'm not going to take you seriously as a person

Are you typing this from a phone right now? If so, I assume you're being deadly serious because I guarantee you the company who made that phone had caused exponentially more evil in this world than Substack could even dream of doing

oh wow yes: best possible example

I can think of no better way to eventually eat food that's been spat on (or worse)

It was a hard decision but I very much stand by it, for all the reasons outlined above and in the quoted thread

I'd like to add something actually: I left Substack in January 2024, after the Nazi stuff initially came out. I hoped I'd be one of many

I think if there had been a mass exodus, things would have turned out differently

Not enough people left. My newsletter stagnated/lost money. I came back

I still think that if there had been a mass exodus in Dec 2023, when the Nazi stuff came out, things would be different. That's when I left. I hoped I'd be one of many

Not enough people left, so nothing changed

You could change all those things

You could quit your job, stop buying fast fashion and stuff from Target, stop buying factory farm meat, stop using the banking system or investing in evil companies

When you do all that, let's talk

What about your 401k?

Is it managed by a bank that contributed to the 2008 crash?

Does your retirement depend on stock in the corporations that lobby for horrible laws, exploit their workers, and ruin our planet?

People who are furious at creators for using one of the only platforms that allows people to make decentish money from writing whatever they want: do you buy products made through exploitative labor practices?

Do you buy meat from tortured animals in factory farms?

Another thing about the "Substack is evil" discourse: Who do the people excoriating creators work for?

Is your corporation completely virtuous? No problematic behavior or supply chain issues at all?

I'd love to know. Maybe I'll apply

Can I ask what company you work for?

Beehiiv is orders of magnitude worse on every level and also I get more reach on Substack. My understanding is that Ghost requires coding knowledge if you don't want it to look absolutely terrible

It can be argued that people shouldn't feel the way they do but that's self-defeating. Ask these voters, and others, what they want to have happen, and then accomplish it. Not that hard.

bsky.app/profile/laur...

Substack isn't uniquely evil in our fucked-up world. It's a regular amount of evil

People with comfortable jobs and steady paychecks love to demand that others immolate themselves in the name of complete and total purity. Your self-righteousness doesn't keep a roof over my head so I'm gonna keep using the microphone I have to spread a message I believe in