Substack is getting a new tweet-like feature called “Notes,” the company announced on Wednesday. The feature will let users publish small posts about things like “posts, quotes, comments, images, and links,” according to a blog post from Substack co-founders…
The Substack Notes vs Mastodon competition for Twitter emigrés will likely go to Substack.
Tumblr really should have won this; they flubbed it.
Ultimately, publishing on “someone else’s site” will win until self-hosting becomes easy enough to go mainstream. I feel WordPress – Tumblr’s owner and what runs this site – flubbed this too.