Substack has locked me out of my blog due to ๐ฆ๐บ Australia's โOnline Safety Actโ.
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The interesting part is why she is surprised that this is happening. Are we not learning?
She uses someone else computer to publish here work. It implies zero control/centralizaton risk.
Substack has locked me out of my blog due to ๐ฆ๐บ Australia's โOnline Safety Actโ.
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Maybe australia is trying to save the internet from over centralization.
One of the lamest things I've seen all day. Can't believe they are still imposing a lock on your account even after you left the country as a visitor. If you want to impose that on your citizens, that's another story (still not respectable, still not about the children, but save that for another day). Feel like they are breaching some ToS and overstepping. Hopefully they see and respond to your posts and hopefully you've sent an email to support, better than nothing while you patiently wait to get your account restored. Feel for your being locked out of part of your network and job. Godspeed๐
Yep
Does #nostr have a substack alternative???
#nostronly #grapheneos #ivpn #Start9
I am building a blogging system based on Nostr long notes. I suppose I can try adding paywall blogs.
My development is advancing at snail pace due to lack of time... So let's see how it develops
Or just host your own site??? Nostr isn't the solution to everything. Nostr is only for allowing account sovereignty among people to who are too lazy to host their own posts.
The only reason I am here instead of on my own Wordpress site is because I want to make it as easy as possible for those lazy bastards to recieve and reply to my posts.
Anything is possible. Someone just showed me a one-shot CLI for MDK built by an openclaw bot.
Let me know if you give it a shot!
I have videos for other songs that touch on other topics (geoengineering, privacy, sovereignty) but last night was an open mic jam so very improvisational...
Thatโs crazy. Dystopian insanity happening in real-time. Thank God for Bitcoin and Nostr.
I will put it as a Todo in my blog-over-nostr project.
And "to make it as easy as possible for those lazy bastards to recieve and reply to [...] posts" is exactly why I think we should create a substack over Nostr alternative ๐
Another reason is a lower barrier of entry. Not everyone can self host. But to write a long format note is easy.
Substack strikes me as not being a platform that loves censorship. This implies that whoever is doing this has their tendrils very far into every company
A decentralized web will be essential in the future, and itโs probably not even all that far away with laws like these already in existence. I had heard about these laws recently on the Security Now podcast.
Many people use VPNs to hide from their ISP, but maybe part of the solution is to use a VPN to your home so you always appear to be coming from there and not trigger stupid things like this. Of course, this cat and mouse game will only work so long.
Thanks for letting us know.
Publish your blogs on Nostr and youโll never need a Substack.
Have you tried clearing your browser cookies?
Really recommend moving away from Substack. Running your own Ghost blog with subscribers and automatic email list of posts built in is one way. And you get to keep all the subscription money minus very very small VPS cost to run Ghost on.
Sounds like Substack was lazy and once it flipped the needs to verify flag it would not clear it.
"Sucksack"
You didn't see this coming from like the other side of the universe?
Thank you for sharing Efrat! Never stop fighting the good fight ๐ซก
There are already some tools:
Import Substack posts to nostr:
Paid content:
Website from nostr posts:
Alternative to linktree:
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Itโs all good that tools already exist.. and Iโm a relatively early adopter, but theyโre not at the level of maturity they should be to seriously use them at scale and have a good audience growth on them.
It will take time till they evolve in terms of features, UX and network effect.
Yes Iโm on it
Will take me time but Iโll get there.
Sure
And the 15k subs? Gone :)
Weโre early. But weโll get there.
I didn't know you could import Substack posts. I tried to build that a few years ago, but I don't write code well enough. ๐คฃ
I can help.
Soon, most countries will require you to show identification before accessing socialโmedia platforms. These laws are being introduced across multiple jurisdictions, and most people will simply comply.
You always knew those 15k subs were at the behest of the provider.
The real ones will seek you out.
@npub1q7wh...m2vr this is horrifying
Hm. i was thinking about ways to hack around this
substack is useful for its email lists but the actual blogging features (text, media) and payments logic already exist on nostr or can be easily customized.
beyond the emails, its fairly easy to port over the 15k subs if they are email subs
a few years ago when people were having censorship issues on YouTube what they did was post a short video and and then a link at the end of video that told people to go to their personal site for continued video that can't be censored.
Our loudness will be ignored as usual. Our actions towards services implementing these verifications can make a difference. When they realize their users are gone and profits shrunk, these services will make a noise which will not be ignored so easily.
never underestimate what you can vibe code these days
Post on both Nostr and Subcrap and let your audience know subcrab can lock you out and where to find you if that happens.
Yeah its fucked
Keep up the good fight
We need to stop this because its just the beginning of something very very, very, tyrannical
all the *B*est. ^_^ Efrat
We will continue to support you , itโs very important for the free speech .
Thx again for your courage !
Iโm always impressed by what you do ๐
pain pushes*/*ya
That's why Nostr will win... Educate your audience who may be just as concerned as you on why and how Nostr fixes this and usher the exodus out of legacy authoritarian platforms. Slowly then suddenly.
& please keep bringing the latest for the latest plebs, tY*
thERE shade here alsO Diy ana @npub19aft...v28l
Thanks for clearly explaining this problem.
Letโs keep working together to resist this horrible attempt to control/surveil us. F@โk the system ๐คฌ
Am doing it and will keep doing it
With ghost?
Ghost has this feature I think. Havenโt implemented yet
Kidnap Your Customer
Kidnap Your Customer
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๐Thanks for sharing I would have run into this problem as well in a few weeksโฆ it also shows that VPNs have limitations in those scenarios where centralised platforms are the real problem
Insanity
Sheโs saying she canโt even access her Substack account anymore because of an arbitrary platform decision made by a country she doesnโt even live in. She canโt even reach that audience right now.
Substack claims to be a โnew economic engine for cultureโ
@Efrat Fenigson thanks for calling out this โcultureโ of normalising identification
Like this, we can see Nostr = a new economic engine for permissionless freedom
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Looks like Spain is on route.
This is insane. Previously, I thought we can just ignore it. However, using this as an excuse to apply this criminal law on other countries too is crazy. We have to boycott substack.
This has to stop, period.
There should be sever consequences for platforms engaged in applying this law. A boycott is in order.
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tY****sister @sister_sam
I understand. It's so close. There's even a nostr native Ghost, but I 'm not sure mailgun is enabled yet.
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Nostr is the (only) answer
Tell you 15K followers that you will be posting on @primal moving forward.
We CHOOSE to live in these cages, freedom is out there.
Just vote with your feet.
SUBSTACK UPDATE โ GOOD NEWS!
Thanks to everyone who helped share the Substack story (below).
Looks like the pressure worked: My account was finally released from digital prison (after 3 weeks).ย
Watch this video for the full update, don't miss my solutions in the end ;-)๐
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The beautiful thing about being an influencer is that everything that happens to you is a an opportunity at self-promotion!
Sorry to see this happening to you Efrat. I hope this is getting resolved soon!!!!
This is why we need open systems. We need to keep pushing Nostr.
somebody has to protect obedient cattle from the dangerous critical thinking you might trigger.
I know. It's a suggestion for the future when she resolve the issue. Audience gotta know what's the plan โฟ
Why didn't you just use your super common law powers that your guest @Monikaco โก๏ธBะฏฮVำจ MำจะIKฮ ๐ฅ
Suggested?
Why didn't you just abandon your home and run from Australia like she advised dir Europeans?
Why should we feel any sympathy for people like you when these are the people you're telling others to listen to and their shitty retarded ideas.
I'm glad you're getting your platform taken away. You're a fucking moron lady.
Agreed on this. Leave the platforms that donโt respect you but drop a note to your followers. Itโs why I wouldnโt let them reclaim my old Twitter handle. I just made it private and left a link to my Nostr.
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Yes!
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Wow. Really sorry to hear about this pretty crummy.
Yah. It's gonna be bot slop apocalypse soon, possibly.
Iโm so happy that you are posting on nostr! ๐๐ป
Itโs the future I want to see!
you can still be censored on nostr, but it would be harder to remove your content, which is why you should have your own local relay this you can preserve your content across different servers incase one blocks you
LFG! Keep shining! โจ
yep. she brings a whole lot of life and conviction to the world
I just found her. Excited to follow her work. ๐ซถ๐ป
imho, you two are peas in a pod.
Fuck the Zionist Australian government and their fucked up laws.
And fuck substack for complying
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Still waiting on an invite.
He muted me on Nostr because I asked what made it different from nostr
Welcome to Nostr
Where the most retarded people on the internet go around calling other people morons for not being born into rich families.
You look like you chew SSRIs for a living.
She has a great vibe so Iโll take that as a compliment. ๐ซ
uPdat.E wAIt a bit, i thot i JUST uPdatED, _wth/____fFs/*****
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Video won't play.
Downloaded it, no image but sound worked so I'm going to listen now.
Really wish video compatibility wasn't such an issue on nostr, both yakihonne and primal refused to load the video.
bur fr, is your experience here improving? still accessing here & undecided as of now tbf/all the best @npub19aft...v28l
tbf><to be fair
rss + flat website ftw, but im
Not sure what the answer is for monitising access to content without a backend.
Tor links or mail lists
Substack is definitely a containment trap.
One day they will rug and purge.
My two favouries posters are substackers : slavlands + phoenician hunter
Canโt wait to get to know your work more!
Where should I go to explore?
You too gorgeous!
This will keep happening
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Just followed now
I donโt really work in public much anymore. I enjoy more of a private life now when it comes to work. I write sometimes but I wouldnโt consider myself a writer. Iโll probably publish a follow up to my nostr piece soon.
I actually came to nostr years ago while I was warning about the possible misuse of the DSA under the guise of child safety. Your video spoke to me because itโs what we all said would happen. ๐
Prevention: Online Child Sexual Exploitation in a Decentralized World
This is a piece about online child safety. My hope is that it will start a conversation.
Beautiful thank you. I saved it and Iโll read it. ๐งก๐๐ป
Iโm on my second podcast of yours now.
You are a star! A different type of star that the world needs/wants. You are extremely authentic, intelligent, kind, thoughtful, passionate. You radiate strong feminine energy and itโs perfect. Outside of all of that you are gorgeous. The world needs you to keep going! Keep shining! I wish that I could explain in a better way how your inside beauty shines outside but Iโm not the best at explaining things. ๐ซถ๐ป
Itโs long as hell ๐
Unfortunately, itโs a conversation that needs to be had. I need to push the conversation further than that piece.
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They will very soon make apps for NOSTR unavailable โผ๏ธ For iOS and Android devices too.
Yeah, thats not how the internet works
The only way is not to paint yourself as a clear spot on their radar.
https://x.com/BBeeTune/status/1783863142797168802
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Youโre only seeing it now?โฆ
No no noo.. but a regular reminder for #nostr folks out there is important.
Yesโฆ