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Substack sent a push alert encouraging users to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter that claimed Jewish people are a sickness and that we must eradicate minorities to build a “White homeland.”

This has been a problem for years: Substack has a Nazi problem - The Atlantic

Substack won’t commit to removing Nazi content - TechCrunch

I don’t think this can be ignored anymore. If you’re on Substack, please consider one of its many fine alternatives. Wired wrote about a few last year.

Plus, it’s quite easy to move a newsletter these days.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 125 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cringe everytime someone's like "subscribe to my Substack". No, fuck off with your substack, everyone knows they're nazi supporters, you're complicit.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago

No such thing as a Nazi supporter, my friend. That's just a Nazi.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 101 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I'm not a Nazi, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks."

--Substack, probably

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 1 month ago

"I'm also not not a Nazi"- Substack founders, definitely

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (6 children)

As a German it's completely mind boggling to me that some societies tolerate an ideology that is responsible for plunging the world into its biggest humane catastrophe (so far), for the sake of free speech. Nazi ideology wants to kill free speech. If you truly want to protect free speech, you have to at least limit it to all the things that do not threaten it.

[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Note that the largest Nazi groups today are in the "allied" nations that "won" WW2.

I read a piece (can't find the source now, sorry) that blamed this squarely on the lack of education and remorse given to the colonial backdrop in which WW2 was fought.

Most parts of the world view WW2 as very much a European war that was imposed on unwilling global participants. The axis powers lost and Germany has since tried its best to reinvent itself while acknowledging its chequered past (check out: Vergangenheitsbewältigung), but the allied powers failed to recognise their colonial atrocities. For example, British history textbooks will loosely allude to the British empire saying that they were once a dominating global entity, but will make absolutely no mention of the numerous massacres and genocides for which they were responsible.

When wars are framed as competitions rather than tragedies, you will see the emergence of false victors instead of acknowledging lost generations. This directly results in a poor public understanding of how bad ideas can fester and hollow out any society.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Over the decades since WW2, the popular culture of the allied countries has typically portrayed Nazis as caricatured crazy monsters. They are treated as strange, other, and non-human. This seems to have thoroughly undermined people's ability to recognize Nazism as a destructive force that lurks in people, whether they're German or American or any other nationality. Any society has the potential to fall into this. The unreflective complacency of the WW2 victors after defeating Nazis once has led to a complete lack of awareness that it's an ongoing job to keep your society from falling prey to fascists.

For a while the collective memory of those who lived through the war protected us, but when that generation died off the lessons were forgotten. Some fell into fascism without realizing it because they assumed they were by nature better than Nazis, while others failed to notice the threat until dangerously late.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you successfully gut public education.

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[–] simsalabim@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Nazis still get free public promotion via ARD Sommertalk 😔

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Hey, at least the music was good.

[–] goatmeal@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

if we are being completely honest with ourselves, most people believe in free speech only in moderation. nazism is most certainly not the only ideology that sharply reduces free speech.

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a deep irony covering this by writing about it.. on Substack

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In fairness, what better place is there for Substack users to see it and consider leaving the platform?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Funnily enough, they might also get censored on many other platforms if they linked or even pointed at an existing nazi blog/site/platform.

[–] Paradox 27 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Substack just annoying as can be anyway, with the constant spammy pop-ups about subscribed to my newsletter and whatever the hell else. Absolutely atrocious blogging platform

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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Centrists: "Oh so everyone you disagree with is a nazi?"

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wtf even is substack anyways?

[–] _thisdot@infosec.pub 15 points 1 month ago

Kinda like Medium or WordPress (the .com variant). Gives you your own subdomain and lets you blog. Their policy is that they absolutely will not editorialise anything. It's used by a lot of reputable good bloggers too

[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Unfortunately popular newsletter service that also puts your issues online to look like a blog. Has a lot of startup capital behind it so they've been paying some of their largest writers on top of subscriber revenue.

Big "marketplace of ideas" idiots who have allowed a lot of white supremacist and - as this and other situations exemplify - straight up Nazi content.

[–] obbeel@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

I see a pattern here...

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I deleted substack back when I randomly got porn in a push notification. You'd think they would address this - I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem good for them.

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[–] Bubbey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

My only cursory knowledge about substack is that if someone has one they're insufferable. Have yet to be wrong.

[–] individual@toast.ooo 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

what are the fine alternatives?

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard good things about ghost.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 1 month ago
[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I ended the post with a link to Wired about alternatives

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Hey look at that... actual bad socialists. (As if they're actual socialists)

[–] heliophane@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

It's a shame there are some people I like on there. I can live perfectly fine without ettingermentum though.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if i had a nickel for every time substack promoted a nazi blog.......

... i'd have a shitload of nickels.

[–] xinit@lemmy.coffee 5 points 1 month ago

Enough to put them all in the toe of a sock and swing it at some Nazis.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is there a substack self-hosted replacement

[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ghost can be self-hosted. Even WordPress these days has newsletter and payment systems that sound fairly easy to drop in.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The main benefit of having a substack vs just running some blog software is that substack manages monetization/subscriptions for you. Hosting text-based content is very easy, but getting paid for it isn't.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and you just have to sell your soul to the Nazi platform so you can get paid easy.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is substack a list of blog website ?

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Substack is a blog host.

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