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excited to check out Wolverine for myself today (good or bad 😂) wrote about what I was seeing in reviews here: jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/perfectly-...

helps me a ton if you surrender your email to my blog!! free version is great, but the paid sub gets you an exclusive weekly blog 😎

Jake, I'd like to ask. Are you aware of Substack's stance re: hosting nazi newsletters and articles on their site? Instead of taking this content down and banning the accounts that post it, the platform has simply continued taking its cut of their revenue. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I've been a fan of the pod for a while now and you and Peter's work holds great value for me—but that's exactly why I feel I *have* to ask. Have you considered hosting your personal writing on a different platform? If not migrate outright just yet, would you consider mirroring your posts elsewhere?

as a reader, I would rather not have to give substack any more traffic, ever. as *your* reader, I would love to support your paid work, but I refuse to do so if it would mean that any small amount of the money went directly into substack's pockets.

Thanks for asking sincerely. I am aware of this, and I think Substack deserves criticism for it. Where I struggle is with what, absent a specific organized campaign with demands and a theory of change, me leaving Substack materially accomplishes.

Substack has become one of the few places where I’ve managed to build a real audience and turn my writing into material support for myself. I’ve had to create that success largely on my own, in places where institutions and even supposed allies have not offered me equivalent opportunities.

There’s a larger question here about where this standard ends. If the principle is that I shouldn’t use a platform that hosts or profits from Nazi content, does that mean I also need to leave YouTube? Twitch? Other enormous platforms that have hosted and monetized hateful or extremist material?