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ok so let me just legit have a holler for a minute about co-running/co-founding an indie media collective in an era when slop is dominant, technofacists have unprecedented access to policy-makers, and we're all so goddamned tired making real shit is hard and costs money

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.

Roundabouts this time, Jezebel — arguably the most visible online feminist property of the 21st century — got jostled around a couple of times, folks were laid off, etc. This in the wake of the loss of Bitch Mag and the death of other feminist outfits that had made and shaped my own career.