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China Martens's avatar

sigh. thank you. like my friend Ian has said you have to be willing to pack up and move platforms more easily these days. all things I am thinking about.

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François Villeneuve's avatar

Talia Lavin, the antifa researcher, has settled at https://buttondown.com/

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China Martens's avatar

Thanks for that information!! I should imbed your comments in the article. it seems its 29 dollars a month? which would be prohibitive to me. it was a big step to go to substack for me. its going to be a bit before I migrate somewhere else. I wanted to be able to write outside of Facebook and instagram; and have a mailing list which I have never successfully been able to use technology to do before, although I tried and failed with mail chimp. I do think a big discussion point to starting Substack should be = do you want to write here, or write somewhere else? Because everywhere you go is going to be a learning curve. to me it seems the best choice so far would be patreon.

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China Martens's avatar

Francois do you blog anywhere? are you planning on changing any social media habits? I don't see easy answers here but am thinking about it all. it makes me also want to keep putting things in print

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François Villeneuve's avatar

I'm still on Dreamwidth! https://frandroid.dreamwidth.org/

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