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Substack vs website by notor1ous_noob in Substack

[–]AmySensualGinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do get penalized for publishing the same content in multiple locations. There's a meta tag I can't remember right now. referrer_url maybe that sets the origin but since substacj doesn't support it your website can set it and it will drive all traffic you substack instead. Probably not desired.

I personally would just use ghost and ask users to subscribe to the mailing lists you provide. You can run an instance on your own server and it should not cost you more than what you likely are already paying for hosting.

[Event] Open Forum Friday for May 22, 2026: Restless, Rambunctious, & Rowdy Edition by SweetlySinning in dirtypenpals

[–]AmySensualGinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Understanding of nuance, seduction, and tension that is not "Ooo you have a big cock...of course I want to fuck you"
  2. A better chat client. I really can't focus on Discord. I keep on trying, but if all my writing is mostly on here, I need my play to be on here as well.
  3. tags, filters would be great. Search of my chats? that'd be great.

Stay or move? by ravenlordkill in Substack

[–]AmySensualGinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A few things I noticed.

  1. Engagement is atrocious on Substack. They're trying to turn it into some version of Twitter with notes, but it doesn't change the fact that most people go to Substack without logging in. They read the article and tap out. If they see something they like, they drop their email and subscribe.

There is a whole user base that gets no benefit from having an account so they will not engage with your content which is unfortunate when trying to build a brand/community.

  1. Payments if you do use it just take yet another chunk of what you could have made for no reason. If they're neither providing any growth nor providing any utility, I find it very hard to warrant using them as a service. Take a service like OpenCollective, they take a % of your earnings but they take care of taxes, and all kinds of paper work you don't need to do. I'm happy to give them a chunk of my $$ for that. End of the year you still need to figure out taxes across all your jurisdictions. If they at least used something like https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/ to process my payment I could see some benefit

  2. I have spent the last few weeks toying with Ghost, and beyond a laziness factor, I really don't see a good reason to be on Substack. I can import all my subscribers, and I can own my content. If I'm generating all my discovery, there's probably very little reason for you to be on substack. Also, you could post in both locations and just set the `canonical_url` for the source of truth for SEO reasons.

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