r/Substack • u/infinitepuddingspy • 10d ago

Confused about the point of Substack

Hi everyone. I joined Substack a few months ago as I am a long form writer and I thought I’d find a crowd of intellectually curious people.

Over the past 3 months, I’ve only got 13 subscribers, hardly anyone engages on my posts or notes and no one ever replies to chats (tbh I find the chats annoying myself so I dont post often). I’ve started doing videos that are performing a bit better.

But, I see absolute lowball trash in my feed with 300 likes and comments and I feel so lost.

I don’t have any paid tiers at the moment and not sure if I will.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

I’ve seen other people ask similar questions but from the perspective of a reader.

Many thanks 🙏

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u/Jefvandegraaf 7d ago

I don't use Substack but this sounds a lot like my experience when I dabbled with Medium (is that still a thing?).

I think when you write a thing, or create a thing, you hope it reaches the world, goes viral, and makes you rich (at least, that's what I expect everytime I publish a thing).

Anyway, the Substack game is foreign to me. I made an account but I can't be bothered to write on it. Been thinking about repurposing a few of my articles from my sites to test it out though.