I'm pretty familiar with it but I should have checked a little more.
Not saying that there's not a connection either as 189 websites only indicates that there might still be one as there's more self-hosted websites (or ones with their own domain name) than that on Substack. I wasn't aware that Substack did the hosting for (some of) those (I had one for a while) but it makes sense.
Richard by doing the hosting of a domain what is Substacks' benefit? If I registered the domain for the Journal and simply reposted here and later went to Substack hosting my own domain what is my benefit? Why are people doing this?
You get more stats, IP addresses of visitors. It's to your site so if you decide to change from Substack it's still going to the same website.
Substack will charge you, as any domain provider will, so that's their gain. Probably several hundred or more a year. For Steve's website with plenty of visitors it's probably quite a lot more than that.
Thanks I see the business model. Observationally SS (not Leibstandard I trust) due to street cred and less censorship overall to date see's a signal for growth and wishes to fatten the margins. Somebody has to depose Zuckerberg and go the Substack route. FB would smash the SS as surely as the Russians at Kursk! Zuck's indecision about Free Expression is costing him.
How do we know you weren’t bought out by Kirsch?
I think there might still be a connection so the post may go back up again. But I need to do a little more work on it.
Can you add my comment back on?
It's still there. It will come back up if I repost.
Cheers, if you're not familiar with the landscape it can be confusing. You're doing a great job on the blog !!
I'm pretty familiar with it but I should have checked a little more.
Not saying that there's not a connection either as 189 websites only indicates that there might still be one as there's more self-hosted websites (or ones with their own domain name) than that on Substack. I wasn't aware that Substack did the hosting for (some of) those (I had one for a while) but it makes sense.
Richard by doing the hosting of a domain what is Substacks' benefit? If I registered the domain for the Journal and simply reposted here and later went to Substack hosting my own domain what is my benefit? Why are people doing this?
You get more stats, IP addresses of visitors. It's to your site so if you decide to change from Substack it's still going to the same website.
Substack will charge you, as any domain provider will, so that's their gain. Probably several hundred or more a year. For Steve's website with plenty of visitors it's probably quite a lot more than that.
Thanks I see the business model. Observationally SS (not Leibstandard I trust) due to street cred and less censorship overall to date see's a signal for growth and wishes to fatten the margins. Somebody has to depose Zuckerberg and go the Substack route. FB would smash the SS as surely as the Russians at Kursk! Zuck's indecision about Free Expression is costing him.