Substack Struggle!

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​  David Vance SubstackRead More

Have a look at my Substack’s performance recently…

Have a look at my inbox this morning…

Now either I have a phenomenally large number of number of troll/bots following me – which seems unlikely – or this place really doesn’t like my content. Two months of this has now been going on and I will be honest with you, it makes it so hard to want to continue, it really does. At least in this current form.

No matter how hard I work here, no matter how much engagement the articles get – the numbers just keep on dropping. Maybe I should paywall the whole damned thing like others do? That’s not my style as I like sharing views on all sorts with you but when I wake up to this I cannot help but feel unwanted by those who control this platform, those who are virtually uncontactable and those who preach free speech but who plainly limit it.

I thought Substack was a space to write freely, to build engagement and an audience of people interested in the same things as me. I don’t think this is possible anymore.

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