I also like the concept but I feel it’s lacking in a lot of the features of substack, beehiiv, paragraph, etc

It’s also not super friendly to non crypto ppl

I feel like mirror could be a really good newsletter platform

Fiction for a better tomorrow
https://www.schematalux.com

feel this

a year or two ago, substack was the clear choice for anyone looking to write online

today, i'm not sure where i would recommend someone start

I recently started on Substack and have had mixed feelings.

I'm not really that invested in it but also don't want to have to go through the hassle of moving.

+1. They started by building on top of SMTP, then gradually introduced more and more closed layers (eg Chat, Notes) and network effects (eg author recommendations). 

The vision of Paragraph is that these layers should be open, composable & owned by creators/readers wherever possible

It’s happening https://warpcast.com/hyper/0xd05968

This is what happens product goals take over user needs. 

Always a fine line, but seems like Substack is on the wrong side.

isn't a lot of this just coming bc their biz model is tough and funding environment is tough(er)?

i think they need new features like this/more lock-in,etc. to (at the very least) be able to tell a compelling fundraising story?

No small sub base and no revenue, switching costs seem minimal to me fwiw