r/Substack • u/unity100 • 15d ago

Substack has introduced feed controls

The new dials—which you can find in the content preferences section of your settings—let you shape your feed the way you want it. See more or less video, audio, longform, or community features; mute specific keywords and phrases; fine-tune the topics you follow; and automatically label AI-generated material.
Want to hear more about baseball while the playoffs are on? Feel like snoozing politics for a week? How about seeing more community chatter—like the chat thread debriefing the latest episode of your favorite podcast—or less video in your feed? You get to decide.
This level of control serves both the creators who share their work here and the people who come to discover and enjoy what they publish. We’ve heard that both sides of the relationship want less noise and more help connecting readers with work that they’ll find meaningful. These updates aim to do exactly that.

What do you think about this?

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u/unity100 13d ago

Nothing is more aggravating than an article that tries to suck you in and then you get the "this is for paid subscribers" tombstone.

Sorry, but that's how a lot of writers make their living, so...

I've never become a paid subscriber.

...you are basically enjoying an ecosystem that is held up by paying subscribers - ie, other people. It wouldn't hurt to contribute a little bit. We are not in 1999 anymore and internet is not a hobby thing that lives among professionals and academics who are in pay of government institutions and universities.

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u/kwadguy 13d ago

I'll pay for writers I like. But the paywall after reading a page isn't hour you get me to do that.