Substack Notes is interesting but they seem to have forgotten a valuable part of the rest of Substack: content ownership and portability. Your newsletter/blog can be at your own domain name, but “notes” are just another silo on someone else’s platform.
Rene van Belzen It’s probably part of their strategy to keep users from leaving their platform if a much better platform appears. I guess being the best is not their main focus, otherwise they’d spon it out as you said they should have, as a separate blog with its own domain.
Michael Wayne Arnold I wish they would at least implement ActivityPub so it could be part of the open web.
Jay Wieland Thanks for that reminder. I love how Alan Jacobs always reminds me to “own my own turf” and micro.blog has been an awesome experience in trying to do that so far.
Manton Reece @marmanold That would be ideal. It’s still early so we’ll see where they go with it, but they don’t really support any open APIs other than RSS and it has been years.
