Still not sure what any of this means in practice, and whether or not it has any practical value to me as a Substack writer. "Quality," even though Chris tries to define it in this context, can mean whatever you decide it means. I understand what search algorithms do and that they fundamentally reflect the will of whoever created them. W…
Still not sure what any of this means in practice, and whether or not it has any practical value to me as a Substack writer. "Quality," even though Chris tries to define it in this context, can mean whatever you decide it means. I understand what search algorithms do and that they fundamentally reflect the will of whoever created them. What continues to concern me is that Substack will be no different from other platforms in that it favors the front-runners — the creators who, frankly, don't need much help in gaining readership because they brought in a large pre-existing following — while pushing down writers who are still trying to get discovered. There is a good business case to be made for highlighting your most popular talent, and to the extent that Substack's big-gun creators have drawn readers to this platform and given it credibility, I think we can all be grateful for that. But if Substack isn't going to actively help me build a bigger following, I might as well be posting somewhere else as here.
Still not sure what any of this means in practice, and whether or not it has any practical value to me as a Substack writer. "Quality," even though Chris tries to define it in this context, can mean whatever you decide it means. I understand what search algorithms do and that they fundamentally reflect the will of whoever created them. What continues to concern me is that Substack will be no different from other platforms in that it favors the front-runners — the creators who, frankly, don't need much help in gaining readership because they brought in a large pre-existing following — while pushing down writers who are still trying to get discovered. There is a good business case to be made for highlighting your most popular talent, and to the extent that Substack's big-gun creators have drawn readers to this platform and given it credibility, I think we can all be grateful for that. But if Substack isn't going to actively help me build a bigger following, I might as well be posting somewhere else as here.