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Rainey Knudson's avatar

I am trying to keep Substack from becoming social media in two specific ways: 1. my default “homepage” is my inbox, not the home screen with people’s notes. I try to avoid notes. 2. I reset my inbox to sort by publication date, not “priority,“ which is their new algorithmic guess for what I want to read. And I reset it to present as a list, not their new pictographic grid.

Also, I don’t have notifications turned on. Basically, I resist every new feature they release that gets away from the original look and feel of Substack. It’s important to me – I find good ideas and writers here. But I worked hard, years ago, to pull the needle of social media out of my arm, and I don’t want to go back down that dark road. We shall see.

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Tom Hirons's avatar

Yes, it's work to maintain a stance against the shitification of things you love! Good luck. I can see the hills and the forest from here and I'm not going back into the full social-media-frenzy spiral. Hacking away at the roots of it and knocking off the heads, one by one by one...

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Rainey Knudson's avatar

It’s a rock we keep pushing up that hill.

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Violet Farraday's avatar

I'm right there with you...I'm doing all the same things, doing my best to keep this place what it originally was.

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Violet Farraday's avatar

Tom, this is the best kind of gut punch...love this one viscerally <3

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Feiyah's avatar

Touched reaching this poem. Thank you.

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Barbara's avatar

Wow, thank you

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Rowena Rhawn's avatar

Deep gratitude to you and the Queen of Heaven for this prayer, so desperately needed right now Tom.

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