Substack is different now. People from other social media are slowly migrating there and producing great content. They're not coming to Nostr.

What I'm talking about are the basic operations every system should support by now: CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete). We’ve got it in every operating system, every database, every other social media platform. Just not on Nostr? Doesn’t that strike you as odd? Without CRUD, any system is basically useless. My ancient, also decentralized weblog gives me real control over my data. The only downside is the lazy, slightly dumbed-down audience that never reaches it. But it wasn’t always like this. Social media made everyone lazy. Cheap audience for minimal effort, in return for algorithms and ads. The internet was always decentralized to begin with. With anonymous hosting in Finland, I’m uncensorable too. So what’s really left of Nostr?

Zaps. You’re generous with those, no doubt. But the rest? “Value for Value” never really worked. Just look at the celebrities who show up here, say “hi” once, collect $1000 in Zaps, and never come back.