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Elizabeth Tai's avatar

I am glad you are listening, because this news is so dispiriting, especially since I came here just to escape the algorithms dominating social media and Google. These algos are killing real creativity. As a reader, I have to wade through tonnes of marketing listicles on Google just to get to some authentic content from a real person. Substack has removed that difficulty from me, and I enjoy my weekend mornings reading my Substacks. I rarely pay for stuff online, but I'm finding myself supporting writers by paying for them.

Introducing this will make it harder for me to find new, rising newsletters. I tend to gravitate towards them as they are refreshing and raw. Don't tell me I have to go through the same thing here, wading through hundreds of checkmarked Substacks to get to the newbies?

As a writer just starting out on this platform, it is dispiriting news. I want to be able to write content without worrying about needing to get a checkmark so that I'll be read/seen. I like the current organic recommendation system. It has allowed to discover new newsletters that give me joy.

Please, please don't do this.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Valid concern for all of us.

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