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I for one, am very happy substack exists. In 2020 I was still using mailchimp for my newsletters and MC was coming out with new policies on acceptable written material. It was around the same time that PayPal was not allowing people to have access to their own funds if they spoke out. I’m glad I found an alternative in substack.

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Apart from respecting free speech, hallelujah, Substack is a very good platform. It's easy to use and cleverly designed to promote engagement. Having had a lot of experience over two decades with other blogging platforms, to me Substack is an important improvement, but in some ways it's actually not as good. I won't delve into all that compare & contrast detail— my point is, yes, many of us, perhaps most of us who read and write about the counternarratives are here. But Substack never was the whole show, and still isn't. There are many influential bloggers out there on self-hosted wordpress and other platforms. In fact two of the most influential bloggers I'd categorize as writing counternarrative, both of whom have a large number of long-standing loyal readers, are James Howard Kunstler (self-hosted WordPress primarily, and Substack belatedly, a mirror site) and John Michael Greer (self-hosted dreamwidth plus a dreamwidth blog).

I would agree with you, Bill, that if some stories could go viral it would be a game changer with the general public. I know that many people remain clueless about the extent and nature of the jab deaths and injuries, and of the fraud and the psy-op. It seems to me that they are of the school of "if it's not in the newspaper or on TV it can't have happened." Sadly.

[edited to correct typo]

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