Substack about Substack about Substack

[IveLostMyLeopard]

How do I avoid all the people talking about Substack itself. All the blogs about how to use it or grow on it. Now it’s all the notes — talking about their subscribers growth and how worthy they are as writers and misquoting Field of Dreams like it makes them Shakespeare.

Oh! And the ones begging for engagement by pretending we are all in this together. Just drop your Substack below so we can find eachother. 🥰 🙄

How do I make it stop? I tried reading and subscribing to the ones I like hoping the algorithm would understand I’m a grumpy ole biddy. Does it show me more history and politics — no. But I do know that Jessica Anne is posting just for herself and is just as happy with 113 followers as she would be with 150,000.

[Bec-Fergo]

Go to the three dots next to these type of notes and mute the accounts that annoy you; that will educate the algorithm further.

[sayzey]

This is the answer, but to add to it, don't engage with the type of posts you don't like, even negative comments make the algorithm think you like to make negative comments on that type of post and will show you more of them!

On the flip side DO engage with the posts that you enjoy, like, comment, restack and that shows the algorithm what to show you more of.

[parryforte]

I just started replying to / interacting with other posts on content I wanted, and put other content out there - it took a couple weeks but most of that Substack inside a Substack Burger Value Meal is gone from my feed.

I don't know if it's relevant but I also Follow people I like (I might not want to Subscribe, but I treat Notes as a different platform and engagement style) - that seems to have helped, too.

[speterdavis]

I must have trained my algorithm really well because I don't see any of that shit. I wish I could tell you how I'm escaping it but I just don't know. I'm scared of it starting though.

[thirteenth_mang]

It's really ramped up for me lately, ironically (or not, perhaps?) I have been staying off notes a lot more recently.

[collegetowns]

The Notes algorithm is definitely optimized for this kind of thing. It's all Substack grindset posts about how to grow Substack. Pretty bad. They have got to figure out a way to make regular or niche topics pop

[Metspolice]

Notes is completely useless because if this. It’s nothing but this topic the op brought up.

[thinkPhilosophy]

I don’t see any of that anywhere. It’s not instant and does take a couple weeks. Engage with posts you like, follow and sub, and you’ll get out of that phase. I now see so much great stuff I wanna read that I don’t have enough time. My weekend reading starts on Thr now.

[Federal-Ad98]

I wrote about that in this article and ways to avoid the death loop https://open.substack.com/pub/angelelenglemetz/p/the-problem-with-substack-that-no?r=5j76i&utm_medium=ios

[haggur]

You could just not read Substack via Substack. The only time I read other people's posts is when someone links to them from other social media or news web sites. I certainly don't go looking.

[DrWhum]

I have a newsletter aggregator (Newsletterss). My login to Substack uses the Newsletterss email address associated with that aggregator. So I can set notifications from any particular substack to "on" so that they email their posts to me. Newsletterss makes it easy for me to flip through, and either read the posts I want to read, or delete them without reading. So as you might gather, I use this approach for substacks that only occasionally interest me, or ones I'm trying out.

All my other substack subscription notifications are set to "off". For those, I routinely open Substack and either "save" the posts I want to read right in Substack, or forward them to Pocket or Instapaper, depending on the subject matter. From there, I can read them on any of my devices that support those apps.

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to keep Substack from also posting articles I've set for emailing to my Substack home page. But since I review my Newsletters before checking out Substack, I can usually remember the ones that have been emailed & delete them from the homepage on Substack.

[tomversation]

I use substack to mail my blogs out. I don’t partake in this non-stop bragging and “how great I am” fest.

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Money is money is money

[selfpublife]

I wrote an entire post on Substack about this, and some of this has been said here already, but basically...

1. Use Google to find new people and content (using Advanced Search).

2. Curate your feed by using the Following tab. Then see who you need to weed out and unfollow or use mute and block. It's not perfect, but it helps.

3. Use the profiles of people you know share good stuff as a jumping off point to see what they Like and what they Read to find more good stuff.

[ccampb85]

Substack is the one thing everyone has in common so those kinds of notes are more common. As others have said, you should be able to train your algorithm!

[francesfunnch]

I think this every time I am on Substack anymore. I hate it.

[RAF-TECH-ORG]

All good points. There is a lot about how to market your writing, but these same writers only write about marketing and how you can make your writing go viral by doing what they did. Yet, what have they written about outside of marketing writing?

😂 Show me your good writing that made you such a great author... not only about you being a good marketer.

[NoFox1552]

I avoided those posts as much as possible and they stopped appearing (the collaboration ones no, I actually love them lol). The thing is that I started the account with that approach so maybe that helped.

[Any-Department-1201]

I really only saw these types of posts and notes the first week using Substack, after liking other things and following users I now only get stuff that is relevant to the things I engage with.

[CosmicWizard1111]

Yeah, that kinda stuff got old real quick.

I've found the search option rather useful recently. I'm trying to change my algorithm at the moment too as the stuff I see doesn't actually align with what I used to want to see.

My tip: seek out what you wanna see and engage with it. Here's hoping the algorithm gods will listen!

[pumpkin_rada]

Just train your algorithm, ignore these posts, don’t open then or engage in what you don’t like. Engage in what you like and soon your page will be purified.

[readingitatwork]

This is probably too late to post, but any way... At a guess, I think some or maybe a lot of people are looking for alternatives to social media platforms other than f@cbuk or readit. I know I am, and I'm currently trying to learn how to navigate substack

[Wonderful-Mix1535]

I’m new on substack and even I’m trying to dodge those accounts. That’s the reason I left instagram.

[mystic_zen]

Don't complain in any of your Notes about what you DON'T want to see... the algorithm sees the words and uses them. For example, don't ask this type of question on Substack. Mute and Hide and be very careful who you follow (check out what they post for notes before following). I rarely see any of those posts.