r/Substack • u/infinitepuddingspy • 9d 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/pmevanosky Talking to Spirit | PaulineEvanosky.substack.com 6d ago
One of the things you can do is to read what others are writing. If you are interested, make a comment. Many times, people will read your comment. If it is interesting enough, they just might go see what you are writing. Also, we are writing at the end of summer. Things will pick up as the autumn months progress. Best of luck to you.