Regarding the tracking links, I do not like them. For security reasons it is often recommended something like "never click on a link, type the link (url) manually by yourself", which becomes so hard with those links. Regarding tracking parts of links, Firefox has implemented a feature to erase that part, but I read Facebook appears to have implemented an encrypted tracking link as response. And those substack-links are in addition redirect links, so impossible to guess. Writing the source and Title in plain text should make it possible to find it without using the link.
Re newsletters - to be "succesful" to get subscribers, you need to have the audience first. A blog post does not need an audience to be possible to find its readers. An alternative to subscribing to newsletters is to subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed on the website - only I know I am subscriber and I can add and delete my susbcriptions immideately when I want to, and no need to give out any e-mail address.
A blog post is also far more possible to control myself, if I want to, I can even host it on a server under my desk, while Substack & Co have their conditions and who knows if they cease to exist or change conditions, like price, censor content etc.
Odd that Substack wanted me to register as a commenter, even though I write here.
Regarding the tracking links, I do not like them. For security reasons it is often recommended something like "never click on a link, type the link (url) manually by yourself", which becomes so hard with those links. Regarding tracking parts of links, Firefox has implemented a feature to erase that part, but I read Facebook appears to have implemented an encrypted tracking link as response. And those substack-links are in addition redirect links, so impossible to guess. Writing the source and Title in plain text should make it possible to find it without using the link.
Re newsletters - to be "succesful" to get subscribers, you need to have the audience first. A blog post does not need an audience to be possible to find its readers. An alternative to subscribing to newsletters is to subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed on the website - only I know I am subscriber and I can add and delete my susbcriptions immideately when I want to, and no need to give out any e-mail address.
A blog post is also far more possible to control myself, if I want to, I can even host it on a server under my desk, while Substack & Co have their conditions and who knows if they cease to exist or change conditions, like price, censor content etc.