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Another downside of Notes for bilingual writers is that Notes are bound to the writer and not to the Substack.

So you cannot write 2 separate note streams - one for each language, because you have only one writer-handle. Many readers don't like bilingual posts, because they are confusing for the reader.

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Yes, I would love to have individual profiles for my two Substacks and my writer profile. But that kinda just makes it more like Twitter.

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If you are trying to copy social media it's better to copy the upsides than the downsides. Notes seems to be made by people who don't understand how the customers work.

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One would hope. But yeah, the problem with Notes being able to embed videos or share videos directly is that it doesn’t increase the visibility of the actual newsletter. Which is where you’re going to actually make money. Unless Substack is going to start paying for every view of a video or Note, there’s no benefit to the writers.

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