Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
A surprising number of people ask me “do you still write?” Substack has iceberg optics. I think I get almost as many eyeballs on my substack as on my retired Wordpress blog but getting off Twitter* gives it iceberg optics… 90% cozy and invisible. As many people see it (though a different demographic mix) but they don’t see each other seeing it. Sinks below common knowledge threshold. Which is now sky high.
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
Why this portable social graph thing is exciting. Nobody uses substack comments (why would you instead of tweeting lol) But if substack comments were also tweets s/substack/paragraph yada yada
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Nah, portable social graph doesn’t work socially even though it’s technically doable. People get attached to “common knowledge commons” except for fanboi types who follow Great Man types everywhere. For the rest of us leaving a platform is leaving the bulk of a network behind
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Also substack notes and private chat threads are buzzing. For broad conversation it beats farcaster and Twitter. The comments section isn’t where the action is.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I think Substack app is good and your niche is vibrant, but I think the app is very hit or miss on the feed. Chats seem more lively. This cast got more engagement than the Substack note equivalent.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Usually down to content. Substackers are sick of meta commentary about substack but FC people are more technically interested in feed engineering. So the hit and miss is explainable and farmable and farming is underway. I don’t bother since I just post stuff I want to without solving for engagement. Bluesky is the one I haven’t figured out. No clue how to farm there even if I wanted to
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will
@w
do think there’s an important point here about the liveliness of the attached private convos. Strong complementary goods
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