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.

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

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

related https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon