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Jeremy Beales's avatar

At least for me the Substack app on iPad is developing real gravity. It’s almost like an old school rss reader in that it brings together all my various Substack subscriptions in one handy place and has consistently been the second app I open in the morning after reading the Times. Yes, it’s driven by the individual writers I follow, particularly Yglesias as he writes every morning and I find his daily writing useful and informative, but at the same time I now follow enough newsletters that it consistently has interesting writing and is a place I affirmatively go on a daily basis. That said I’m also a weirdo who started using rss to structure my information diet in the early 2000s and never gave it up, so I may be completely unrepresentative.

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JasonB's avatar

I think in order for Substack to be sticky, it needs an all-you-can-eat subscription. I'm not going to wander the site just to hit paywall after paywall - that's frustrating. In a world where I automatically have access to hundreds of writers, though, I'd work a lot harder at finding more people I'm interested in.

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