alt Hacker News> Substack gives you a way to push content to your subscribers without an intermediary deciding what they get to read.
How do we know they won't start limiting your reach in the future? That's the path basically every other platform has gone down.
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When they will, you’ll be free to take action.
Do they do it right now? How far into the future can you plan for? In the long run we all die.
There's enough demand for the feature that if they stop supporting it, they won't be able to compete against anyone offering the feature.
Your host can kick you and DNS can block you.
Gmail has categories. So they already are.
That’s when you leave.
> How do we know they won't start limiting your reach in the future?
You can never know anything about what anybody will do in the future? You can't. Why do hackers always use this argument against everything?
The entire pitch of Substack is "You can export the email addresses of your current subscribers at any time"
So if they stop doing the "email my subscribers whenever I post" step, another service will fill the gap pretty quick.