Ben Werdmuller explains his departure from Substack:
Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service. Every email will be free from now on; paid subscribers will be refunded in full.
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I also get to decide which rooms I want to be in, and which rooms I want to invite other people into. I don’t have any interest in hanging out in a room with Nazis, and I certainly don’t have any interest in inviting my friends to hang out there with me. If I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make me or my friends feel unsafe — or, as is true in this case, pays them to hang out there, and makes money from their presence — I can use the law of two feet to leave.
Which is what I’ve done. And if you’re still on Substack, I encourage you to do the same.
I’ve already left Substack. The independent web is for me. Free isn’t really free.
See also, Substack Won’t Ban Nazis.