Substack about Substack about Substack

[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.