Personally, as a nobody on substack, I find that the only way to get likes, reads, restacks is to say something people want to hear. There are a few people who will like and restack out of kindness, share what one says, but the greater audience on substack will leave as soon as you say something they don't like. I know this because I've tested it, and it happens mechanically.
Now, for myself, I don't really care, because I've never entertained any notion that I'm anything beyond an outsider, which by nature means that even if someone finds my work, they will leave it soon enough anyway.
However, substack is a place where writers want success, and when success means conformity to a certain landscape they will adopt that.
Welcome to the echoe chamber.
In terms of Notes, it is there to give you more of what you linger on. Apparently if one lingers on images of art, poetry, and sculpture, there is only a trickle to go around, so the rest gets filled up pretty quickly with endless rehashing from the vacuous media landscape of the early 21st century.
I tend to view substack as a place that actively promotes specific points of view, presented in specific ways. Its unwritten, but it real, and if you conform to this template the sky is the limit.
What this means for people like me?
Well, for as long as I can I will journal to show my fealty to the Gods who looked down at me before I was born and said, "give this one some ability with art and writing".
Dunno really, other than to say that perhaps its my tonic to an evil and abusive society.
When this opportunity goes, so will everything I do here, so I take it as a kind of determination to be authentic to a higher reality...for a while.
Personally, as a nobody on substack, I find that the only way to get likes, reads, restacks is to say something people want to hear. There are a few people who will like and restack out of kindness, share what one says, but the greater audience on substack will leave as soon as you say something they don't like. I know this because I've tested it, and it happens mechanically.
Now, for myself, I don't really care, because I've never entertained any notion that I'm anything beyond an outsider, which by nature means that even if someone finds my work, they will leave it soon enough anyway.
However, substack is a place where writers want success, and when success means conformity to a certain landscape they will adopt that.
Welcome to the echoe chamber.
In terms of Notes, it is there to give you more of what you linger on. Apparently if one lingers on images of art, poetry, and sculpture, there is only a trickle to go around, so the rest gets filled up pretty quickly with endless rehashing from the vacuous media landscape of the early 21st century.
I tend to view substack as a place that actively promotes specific points of view, presented in specific ways. Its unwritten, but it real, and if you conform to this template the sky is the limit.
What this means for people like me?
Well, for as long as I can I will journal to show my fealty to the Gods who looked down at me before I was born and said, "give this one some ability with art and writing".
Dunno really, other than to say that perhaps its my tonic to an evil and abusive society.
When this opportunity goes, so will everything I do here, so I take it as a kind of determination to be authentic to a higher reality...for a while.