Ghost 6.0

Ghost is demonstrating the power of independent media being able to fight in a landscape of venture capital capture and corporate consolidation. The shape of the organization running Ghost is a non-profit, which is more common for open source projects to take on; another example of the lack of the need to run to the explicit for-profit model to make change.

The excuses I tend to see about the "lock-in" of using Substack lean on the very things that Ghost provides — even before this release. This has me believing that, in some cases, publishers — be it large or small — don't mind cohabiting with Nazi content. The access they gain in these circles seems to more important than the integrity of what they report on. I've seen a few publishers, namely Taylor Lorenz, call this call to leave Substack a form of virtue signaling, from those who are in her comments about it^[1]. I have a bit of a qualm with the concept of digital virtue signaling but I can see how folks who aren't funding you but wanting to give you executive direction as a way of "yelling from outside of the club".

Looks like there's less reason to stick in the NaziStack, though!