I’m so glad to see in words what I’ve been feeling since I began using Substack this week. I just joined to 1) start posting my work (I write short form fiction and short reflections about life at sea) 2) because of the promise that this was a magical place full of incredible long form stories. Yes, I’ve found some incredible stories but that’s after digging through piles and piles of trash Notes in my feed. I was hoping this was an alternative to the doom scrolling of other apps and ended up being almost the same. I’m hoping the algorithm improves and begins to reward long form posts. It’s not like the technology is not there. I’m pretty sure chatGPT can easily separate actual literary content from twitter style zingers ;) maybe that would be a good use of AI.
i heard there’s an app that will ”create viral notes” and post them for you, so your ai suspicions are warranted i think. personally i just hope i can tell, and like the kind of stuff i wanna see more.
What’s the alternative? I think notes have a lot of useful applications. Discovery/marketing and “bumping” certain publications for whatever reason are the two that come to mind.
hey david! thank you so much for the mention i couldn’t agree more with what you so well said! i didn’t even know we could have something else but notes showing up on our feed as the first thing we see when we open the app but good to know i might implement this too!
I’m so glad to see in words what I’ve been feeling since I began using Substack this week. I just joined to 1) start posting my work (I write short form fiction and short reflections about life at sea) 2) because of the promise that this was a magical place full of incredible long form stories. Yes, I’ve found some incredible stories but that’s after digging through piles and piles of trash Notes in my feed. I was hoping this was an alternative to the doom scrolling of other apps and ended up being almost the same. I’m hoping the algorithm improves and begins to reward long form posts. It’s not like the technology is not there. I’m pretty sure chatGPT can easily separate actual literary content from twitter style zingers ;) maybe that would be a good use of AI.
i heard there’s an app that will ”create viral notes” and post them for you, so your ai suspicions are warranted i think. personally i just hope i can tell, and like the kind of stuff i wanna see more.
What’s the alternative? I think notes have a lot of useful applications. Discovery/marketing and “bumping” certain publications for whatever reason are the two that come to mind.
hey david! thank you so much for the mention i couldn’t agree more with what you so well said! i didn’t even know we could have something else but notes showing up on our feed as the first thing we see when we open the app but good to know i might implement this too!