A listener asks if they should write one big, successful comic or several mediocre ones. We have a bigger question: What makes you think you have a choice?! Also, it turns out the whole “Substack nazi” thing was yet another case of Platform Panic.

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ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

• Which is better… one big success or multiple mediocre ones?
• UPDATE: Kindle Direct Publishing
• UPDATE: Patreon is fixing free membership
• UPDATE: Substack didn’t have such a big Nazi problem after all
• Fighting AI with Nightshade (https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/)

Substack’s Platform Panic

For more information on this topic, please check out these posts:

• freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/these-rules-about-platforming-nazis
• freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/how-to-quit-substack

Many of the people who were making the most noise on this issue are switching to Ghost. Check out Ghost’s TOS — in which they’ve even highlighted their clause on refusing to moderate content! And, on top of that, the total number of nazi accounts that were found on Substack was only 5 or 6, none of them monetized, and collectively had fewer than 200 followers– and most of them wound up being taken down by Substack anyway.