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damemagazine.comWhen Twitter Died, So Did Independent Journalism - Dame MagazineIt’s heartbreaking what ten years and a Nazi-enabling takeover can do to one of the most important tech utilities of the modern era. I speak, of course, of Twitter. Ten years ago this summer, I built ...

in late fall '23, I wrote about what the fall of twitter did to independent journalism, which was never a safe bet even before. i tracked just a little bit of how fucked up the non-corporate news sphere was gonna be without Twitter.

The ~ newsletterification ~ of indie reporting was supposed to be our post-Twitter saving grace, even though the only way to really succeed at that point was to transfer a built-in audience to (supposedly) a Substack which even at that point, we knew Substack was a Nazi haven

Substack remains a Nazi haven, shored up by leftists who refuse to leave the platform because they either wrongly believe it's too profitable to abandon or don't care. Buncha folks left the platform anway, including me. We were all thinking how to make a business work.