#substack

There is a solution to this and the solution is called RSS. Andy Bell explains RSS and this is exactly how I read newsletters. If I want to read someone's newsletter and it's on Substack, or ghost.io, or buttondown.email, what I actually do is subscribe to their newsletter but what I'm actually subscribing to is their RSS feed. This sections off newsletter stuff into a completely separate app that I can catch up on when I've got the time, it means that the newsletter owner (or the site they're using) can't decide to "upsell" me on other stuff they do that I'm not interested in, and it's a better, nicer reading experience than my mail app.

A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us. Click to read Adjacent Possible, by Steven Johnson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

It's your newsletter, or your email, or your blog. Or just your writing. But it sure as hell isn't "your Substack".