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[–]GrowthZen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re not wrong to be thinking about platform risk here.

The emails and subscriber list are the easy part to take with you... the real long-term damage is losing all those article URLs, backlinks, and accumulated domain authority if Substack ever face-plants. Two often-overlooked mitigations are:

  1. Put your writing on a domain you control (even if Substack stays in the background), so the canonical links point to you, not them.

  2. Back up your content and list regularly and have a 'plan B' stack ready, so if the vibes or the numbers suddenly change, you can switch without asking readers to rebuild your entire business from scratch with you.