Our little substack is growing up too fast. Well just a year ago the little guy could barely print and now he is making threads and such. Just think, before too long he might be big enough to be canceled or censored.
Oh, I absolutely agree - avoid using either phone or pad if I can. I spend more time cursing and muttering while I correct typos or even worse erasing the algo's predictive corrections or additions, not to mention how much slower I am than typing on a keyboard.
Nice! I'm off all social media platforms (thank God) and would be happy to participate with other like-minded sociopaths who enjoy a 30 hour Jim Jones session.
Easily interact with Darryl Cooper and the Martyr Made family you say? I say, hell yes! This podcast has literally changed my life. My 1st order of business is to champion DCT for junior high and high school students. Darryl Cooper Training. “Those that don’t know history are destined to repeat it”.
Are you a history teacher? I loved history but we always ran out of time. By the end of the semester we were at best in the middle of the 20th century. This was in the late 80s-early 90s.
BTW... awesome direction. I grew up on Internet Forums as well. Been part of the eMastercam community since close Toni's inception in early 2000. Internet friends that became like family. Some of us gather annually as a group. Some of us live innthe same region get together more often. When our woke Canadian software reseller shut down the Off Topic section ... it killed the forum. So one of the guys started a Slack Channel and we STILL hang out every day chatting up like we're at work together.
Gosh I miss the old forums. I joined the Townhall Forum on Compuserv back in 1994. I thought I had found Heaven. It was intelligent, collegiate, (except for one or two who tried to subdue the rest of us by demonstrating their extensive vocabulary of insult words), and fun. There were quite a few romances and several marriages.
Through the forum I moderated a weekly one hour political and current events discussion group. We met each Saturday at 8 am for one hour. We did this for years, moving from one place to another, as forums disappeared, or stopped having the group chat feature. I think we finally disbanded in 2010. Some of us still keep in touch.
Ok - I have the app - no threads yet, but I'm on CST. I'll probably be mostly a lurker, 'cause I subscribe to you to learn, not expose my ignorance...too much, anyway ha ha. I comment occasionally, and you always ❤️ my comment, but I suspect that means you appreciate your readers comments more than simply the content of the comment. 😊
This is going to be exciting! About the only thing of import I wrote in my own hand is the original draft of the Bill of Rights, so this will be new for me.
As for interacting a bunch of blowhards of similar mind, I did that all the time, often acting as their referee. That’s fun. Just don’t ask me about shoe making, I’ve left that vocation behind me.
One of the problems online communities face that irl ones don't is that if someone shows up to your irl hobby meetup and starts saying Jews are subhuman or whatever you can take him out back and literally beat his ass. That threat of physical violence is one of the unspoken things that makes weirdos keep their stupid opinions to themselves irl. Not online, though, which is why idiots proliferate in places like Twitter.
Early internet communities like forums were small and therefore had an ethos (curse you, Coen Bros!) which was strictly enforced and therefore generally avoided the issue of idiots spouting BS.
Thing is, banning an idiot never (well, almost never) triggered some retarded debate about freedom of speech, which inevitably happens these days. I genuinely almost feel for Twitter and Facebook in having to navigate the shoals of the fake "freedom of speech vs online Nazis" discourse. Kicking Nazis out of your online forum wasn't an egregious violation of anyone's rights. It was intellectual sanitation.
Yes, I know it sounds like I'm advocating for some kind of Substack Safety Committee that will police speech to protect fragile members' fee-fees, but that's not what I'm advocating. In dealing with this problem, Twitter and Facebook went too far in the opposite direction. They not only banned Nazis but started coddling the fragile egos of attention-seeking idiots. This just led to a different set of idiots proliferating on Twitter.
So if Substack Threads is going to work, the moderation is going to have to be like it was in the old days: don't put up with bullshit, but also don't coddle egos.
This will benefit from being a closed environment of people already interested in the Substack (and for paying members, if the author wants, to put up another filter), and also from standards being set by the author and community itself (within very broad specifications, I imagine).
Self selection may work in this environment UNTIL the trolls disagreeing with us choose to berate and harass. At that point, “kiss my ass” is an appropriate parting comment IMHO
Only on i-phone, damn. Looking forward to this feature, hope the Android users don't get discriminated against when we do join.
Yep, need to get the android app up and running!
Yup I am in the same boat.
legit the only time I've regretted not having an iphone
Substack android app just dropped!
Let's gooooooooooo
Cheers man! Thanks!
Our little substack is growing up too fast. Well just a year ago the little guy could barely print and now he is making threads and such. Just think, before too long he might be big enough to be canceled or censored.
it would be a shame if this is for phone apps only. I prefer desktop computer browser when writing anything of length... =\
Hi, I work on the Substack team — building the web version for Threads is definitely a priority for us. Thanks for the feedback.
Love the concept and look forward to interacting with other MartyrMade afficianados
Thanks, Jasmine. You've prophylactically defused by missive, the TL;DR of which was thus:
I'm trying to GET AWAY from feeds on phones.
I installed it on my iPad
I barely can type on my iPad. Can’t really at all on a phone either. I need a keyboard to my two fingers enough room.
Oh, I absolutely agree - avoid using either phone or pad if I can. I spend more time cursing and muttering while I correct typos or even worse erasing the algo's predictive corrections or additions, not to mention how much slower I am than typing on a keyboard.
I agree 100% about those pesky algos trying to suggest speech. My text conversations with my wife amount to me replying, "ok" or "yes."
Agreed - and they're saying that's a priority. Nice.
I’m stoked this could be really cool
Nice! I'm off all social media platforms (thank God) and would be happy to participate with other like-minded sociopaths who enjoy a 30 hour Jim Jones session.
Jim Jones thanks you!
The other Jim Jones
Easily interact with Darryl Cooper and the Martyr Made family you say? I say, hell yes! This podcast has literally changed my life. My 1st order of business is to champion DCT for junior high and high school students. Darryl Cooper Training. “Those that don’t know history are destined to repeat it”.
Are you a history teacher? I loved history but we always ran out of time. By the end of the semester we were at best in the middle of the 20th century. This was in the late 80s-early 90s.
No, but maybe in another life I was. :) History was always my favorite subject in school and I graduated in 93.
As a lowly Android-user I will have to look on in envy. Very cool though--I'm glad Substack is so involved with the creators.
We need the app for Android too!
BTW... awesome direction. I grew up on Internet Forums as well. Been part of the eMastercam community since close Toni's inception in early 2000. Internet friends that became like family. Some of us gather annually as a group. Some of us live innthe same region get together more often. When our woke Canadian software reseller shut down the Off Topic section ... it killed the forum. So one of the guys started a Slack Channel and we STILL hang out every day chatting up like we're at work together.
It will be rolled out soon enough. This is just to help them test/finish it.
Awesome!
I get it... they have to start with something and it may as well be the singular most popular Smartphone Platform.
With baited breath we black sheep wait. 😁
Gosh I miss the old forums. I joined the Townhall Forum on Compuserv back in 1994. I thought I had found Heaven. It was intelligent, collegiate, (except for one or two who tried to subdue the rest of us by demonstrating their extensive vocabulary of insult words), and fun. There were quite a few romances and several marriages.
Through the forum I moderated a weekly one hour political and current events discussion group. We met each Saturday at 8 am for one hour. We did this for years, moving from one place to another, as forums disappeared, or stopped having the group chat feature. I think we finally disbanded in 2010. Some of us still keep in touch.
Two spaces after a period — it took a while for me to break the habit!
What a terrific experience!
Very nice! This will be interesting!
Yes sounds great, on android so will join when it's open to my kind!
Ok - I have the app - no threads yet, but I'm on CST. I'll probably be mostly a lurker, 'cause I subscribe to you to learn, not expose my ignorance...too much, anyway ha ha. I comment occasionally, and you always ❤️ my comment, but I suspect that means you appreciate your readers comments more than simply the content of the comment. 😊
This is going to be exciting! About the only thing of import I wrote in my own hand is the original draft of the Bill of Rights, so this will be new for me.
As for interacting a bunch of blowhards of similar mind, I did that all the time, often acting as their referee. That’s fun. Just don’t ask me about shoe making, I’ve left that vocation behind me.
Well this is pretty cool! I might work on moving my show over here!
One of the problems online communities face that irl ones don't is that if someone shows up to your irl hobby meetup and starts saying Jews are subhuman or whatever you can take him out back and literally beat his ass. That threat of physical violence is one of the unspoken things that makes weirdos keep their stupid opinions to themselves irl. Not online, though, which is why idiots proliferate in places like Twitter.
Early internet communities like forums were small and therefore had an ethos (curse you, Coen Bros!) which was strictly enforced and therefore generally avoided the issue of idiots spouting BS.
Thing is, banning an idiot never (well, almost never) triggered some retarded debate about freedom of speech, which inevitably happens these days. I genuinely almost feel for Twitter and Facebook in having to navigate the shoals of the fake "freedom of speech vs online Nazis" discourse. Kicking Nazis out of your online forum wasn't an egregious violation of anyone's rights. It was intellectual sanitation.
Yes, I know it sounds like I'm advocating for some kind of Substack Safety Committee that will police speech to protect fragile members' fee-fees, but that's not what I'm advocating. In dealing with this problem, Twitter and Facebook went too far in the opposite direction. They not only banned Nazis but started coddling the fragile egos of attention-seeking idiots. This just led to a different set of idiots proliferating on Twitter.
So if Substack Threads is going to work, the moderation is going to have to be like it was in the old days: don't put up with bullshit, but also don't coddle egos.
This will benefit from being a closed environment of people already interested in the Substack (and for paying members, if the author wants, to put up another filter), and also from standards being set by the author and community itself (within very broad specifications, I imagine).
Self selection may work in this environment UNTIL the trolls disagreeing with us choose to berate and harass. At that point, “kiss my ass” is an appropriate parting comment IMHO
Bingo. Skin in the game-- represented by money-- goes a long way towards solving these problems.
If anyone can find that balance, you can.
And I thought we were going to see some cool T-shirts :-(
Soon!