Substack has locked me out of my blog due to 🇦🇺 Australia's “Online Safety Act”.
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That´s why NOSTR exists! 💜
These tyrants...its probably the proof of concept for the rest of the western world soon.
1984 👋
You often have issues with platforms ( I saw you talk about YouTube previously).
So… the issue is most likely platforms, would it be better to focus on bringing your audience to protocols that can’t so easily be shut down?
It’ll be hard of course, you’ve built a career on these platforms but I do think it’s on us all to make the change.
Good luck.
The problem with the centralised internet is that it operates based on the whims of the powers that be. Meatspace legal jurisdiction is being applied to cyberspace even to companies that are not from the country where weird laws are applied. Yes it's up to companies to resist but most won't as the example below shows, therefore it's time for decentralised publishing solutions on Nostr to make Substack obsolete. If you have the juice and time, do call your senators to complain, but if not, rather "build back better" on uncensorable protocols.
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Sorry about this Efrat, and I do hope this issue is resolved quickly. That said, it seems to me that The censors are only getting warmed up and this sort of is set to increase not decrease, I do hope you have a Nostr backup of your substack
I don’t.
But it’s ok I’ll get access one way or another and build it elsewhere.
That’s the long term plan yes.
The short term is to be on both for a transition period. I’m ready for it.
I love sharing these things from my lived experience. I’m not mentally harmed by it. It’s an opportunity to make good content and prove my point. That’s why I’m decentralized.
That's the way to go 🤝 The age of being held hostage by centralized platforms is over. Godspeed in that endeavour and do let the censors get to you
Check out Seed Hypermedia
selfsov Efrat/* btw, is th@ an OG handle? @Efrat Fenigson
What an adventure 😱🔥 full support
mental
I only know about you because of Nostr. From what I gather, your topics are BTC and "being true to yourself" (which includes limiting your time with toxic opposition).
So, this is what AU is afraid of?
Promoting standing up for one's self, and their future is harmful to children?
Or are they opposed to women with a voice?
If so, it seems like someone from semi-popular media could have a field day with this story.
also, i don't wait for assholes & just walka\/\/ay/*it takes a bit but i compound with win><win situations & am happy/all the best @Efrat Fenigson
the issue is not the platforms but the laws from some governments that are forcing platforms to comply in restricting content and therefore freedom of speech
Words cannot express how mad this makes me.
The sooner daily/weekly/monthly users quit using centralized systems, the sooner they will starve. It only takes a few quarters of non-growth for their stock to plummet.
Substack has locked me out of my blog due to 🇦🇺 Australia's “Online Safety Act”.
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Not surprising, yet disheartening to see it become hard reality. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Being loud about it is one way. Bringing people to Nostr another. Building/using BTC circular economy also. Living in a more free jurisdiction yet another (though you never know how long it'll last and the input costs are high).
Sharing doable ways out, painting an understandable scenario of a possible future helps. I know that's what you're doing and I'm glad we're already here on Nostr. Anyway just wanted to share that describing tangible ways forward is key 🙏🏼🧡
The two work hand in hand, any new regulation is made WITH those companies, they lobby hard for this stuff, it protects their walled gardens.
Do you think Meta and Alphabet didn’t have major influence on the legislation?
Yeah governments are terrible but to give corporations a pass on the back of it? Nah.
Thank you for this important insight into how bad the systemic tyranny is becoming.
have you heard about layer3.press ?
Its all about control. Control you self, join Nostr.
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it's alarming. what is even more alarming is the amount of blue pilled who will simply go along. I rapped on stage about this last night and people are more receptive than ever, let's keep going 🙏💠❣️✊
So sorry to hear that Efrat, we are doomed, thankfully we have nostr.
There is a reason One Nation, the right wing nationalist party, has gained popularity in Australia.
Yes
You have a video of the song?
Yep. It’s accelerating!
Of course they did. They are all in bed together. Centralization attracts centralization.
Of course it’s key. I do it all the time.
Both
Indeed
Thanks friend. Yes. Insane.
The totalitarian tiptoe is turning into a steady jog.
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I've not seen any evidence ON are actually better these days on free speech. The voting records speak for themselves.
Nationals are better, as are one or two Greens, but I've only seen Reason Party and the Libertarian Party take a consistent stand.
Correctamundo 🎯
Substack is entirely capable of not serving AU.
Yeah, One Nation are Zionist larpers, but it's the perception that makes them popular
Frustrating Efrat sorry
As soon as that law came in, I’ve stopped using Substack, as when k try to login I get asked for a digital ID to show my age
Crazy
The oil slick is also spreading in Spain with the corrupt traitorous president Pedro Sánchez
From someone's perspective who's nostr only, it's unreal to watch 99.9% of the population willingly sticking to centralized platforms. The network effect and the herd mentality are probably to be blamed but I believe we will have to opt-out of their centralized gulags in order to be individually free.
Messed up. Appreciate your work. Keep going. 👥 💜
I am wondering if we can create a substack alternative based on Nostr.
Long form notes for the posts.
Encrypted using MLS to restric access to paying users.
Some sort of automation to add pub keys to the group when an account is zapped (Here smart contracts, which both #bitcoin and #Monero lack, can come in handy).
When a post is shared ia regular messages is shared, mentioning the encrypted long format note and link to "subscribe" to the channel.
Comments are regular messages on the unencrypted message so that the post gets amplified with engagement.
@JeffG what do you say? Is this possible?
How come VPNs and Tor didn't work?
Because they've flagged her account on their servers.
The Australian government I think was one of the worst during Covid, as in loose your job if you are not vaxxed, lockdowns and an app to show where you go ( like tag on and off) to „inform you when you have been near someone infected“ and to stop the spread. It is all about control so now this new law is another one of these control mechanisms. People know it, people see it, people demonstrate against it but the politicians do it anyway. I really love Australia but our government is shit.
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.
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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. Godspeed🙏
Gotta love control
Maybe it just triggers some kind of ‘do not pass until’ function, if so then no way round, unless you’re a shadowy super coder of course.
Wow! I see many comments from Substack creators having to deal with this issue.
Censorship
@Simon Dixon @Lyn Alden @Matthew Kratter
FYI Substack has been a great platform for publishing content and reaching people!
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Yes
I’m lovin it
😂🤣😂
Yep
It would be great.
Substack was also good for the organic growth algos and recommendations from other substackers and more
@Efrat Fenigson this is due to jewish supremicists controlling the narrative.
Do you believe it’s time to convert? T seems like you’re a truth seeker, Christ is truth.
Let’s have the first Nostr baptism!
#biblestr
Yes very crazy. Good on you
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...
That’s 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 😀
Another reason is a lower barrier of entry. Not everyone can self host. But to write a long format note is easy.
fucking crazy
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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 it’s 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 you’ll 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.
Self host ghost 🗿
"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 🫡
There are already some tools:
Import Substack posts to nostr:
Paid content:
Website from nostr posts:
Alternative to linktree:
Own Your Posts
Bring your content to Primal and Nostr. Own your posts forever.
Fanfares
Fanfares - Sell your content for zaps
The Internet Money Era of Publishing
Npub.pro
Nostree
A Nostr-based application to create, manage and discover link lists, show notes and other stuff.
It’s all good that tools already exist.. and I’m a relatively early adopter, but they’re 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 I’m on it
Will take me time but I’ll get there.
Sure
And the 15k subs? Gone :)
We’re early. But we’ll 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. 🤣
I can help.
Flippin' crazy! Australia has joined my never visit list with the UK. I will do my best to avoid any of their products, and let others know of their tyrannical views.
In colonial days, tarring and feathering were used to keep politicians in check, as were harsher methods. Not advocating violence, but I can understand why folks back then felt it was justified.
Soon, most countries will require you to show identification before accessing social‑media 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.
@tigs 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 , it’s very important for the free speech .
Thx again for your courage !
I’m always impressed by what you do 🙏
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 @Diyana
Thanks for clearly explaining this problem.
Let’s keep working together to resist this horrible attempt to control/surveil us. F@“k the system 🤬
Am doing it and will keep doing it
With ghost?
Ghost has this feature I think. Haven’t implemented yet
Kidnap Your Customer
Kidnap Your Customer
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🙏Thanks for sharing I would have run into this problem as well in a few weeks… it also shows that VPNs have limitations in those scenarios where centralised platforms are the real problem
Insanity
She’s saying she can’t even access her Substack account anymore because of an arbitrary platform decision made by a country she doesn’t even live in. She can’t even reach that audience right now.
Substack claims to be a „new economic engine for culture“
@Efrat Fenigson thanks for calling out this ‚culture‘ 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