Cherokee Nation Sends Heirloom Seeds To ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault In Norway
"The Cherokee Nation is the first US Tribe to deposit culturally important crop seeds in the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard"
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#DoomsdaySeedVault #seeds #FoodCrops #Cherokee #Norway #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/cherokee-nation-sends-heirloom-seeds
Ooh, a couple of smart people started an interesting new publication I’d like to read…
on fucking #Substack, the company that refuses to ban and deliberately promotes Nazis and white supremacists
How does this keep happening
and how smart are these people to begin with
how can we do more to help stop this from happening
like ever again
With all this concern with #Trump and his Nazi followers, why the fuck are you posting on #substack
“Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie explicitly justified the decision to platform Nazis – and profit from platforming Nazi extremism – as a heroic act of defending free speech.”
Substack is actively platforming and enabling the monetization of #Nazis
Leave the Nazi table!
#US / Major progressive groups launch anti-Trump Substack
New Democratic coalition launches "How We Fight Back" on #Substack—offering free, unpaywalled content including essays and videos from Democratic lawmakers. Part of broader Dem strategy to expand digital presence across platforms, joining other anti-Trump outlets finding success on Substack like The #Bulwark and writers Jim Acosta and Jen Rubin.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/23/2025/major-progressive-groups-launch-anti-trump-substack
"Substack's Role in the Network State
The company is also a major tentpole in a parallel establishment envisioned by Andressen and other promoters of the Network State movement, which specifically aims to dismantle the United States and replace it with a federation of smaller, competing fiefdoms."
-What they're doing;
"We replace media with parallel media. It's Twitter and X, it's Substack. This concept of the parallel establishment, if you take up all of these new institutional replacements on the right hand side together, that's a parallel establishment."
Get off Substack.
Celebrating every little victory as an artist matters!
#Substack rival #Ghost is now connected to the #fediverse
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
Newsletter platform #Ghost, an open source competitor to #Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web.
Federated apps run on the protocol #ActivityPub, which powers apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, and others,
allowing posts published on one app to be seen and engaged with by those on other federated platforms.
Ghost said last year that it was working on an integration with ActivityPub, which would allow its publishers to share their blog posts with the broader open social web.
The company expected the integrations to go live last year. However, Ghost this week announced the launch of its social web beta, which now allows any site running on its Ghost Pro subscription to try out the new ActivityPub integration.
The beta feature is still in active development, the company notes in its help documentation, but is expected to ship in a more finalized state in the Ghost 6.0 release.
When Ghost Pro users connect their blog or newsletter to the fediverse, others across the open social web will be able to follow their account’s handle.
This handle is a combination of “@index,” representing the home page of the publication, followed by the domain name (@yoursite.com).
Ghost says users will soon be able to customize the @index part of their @index@yoursite.com handle.
Users on federated apps will then be able to follow the Ghost publisher’s posts, as well as interact with them by liking, replying, or reposting.
To help Ghost publishers also participate in the fediverse and build their readership,
Ghost also launched a social web reader.
Here, users can browse a “feed” of the short-form content shared across the fediverse, including posts from services like Mastodon and Threads.
In a separate area called the “Inbox,” Ghost users can keep up with long-form content, like articles published on Ghost or WordPress, the popular publishing platform that integrated with the fediverse in 2023.
“Think of the Inbox screen like your email inbox. When you follow other publications on the social web, new articles they publish will show up here,” Ghost’s help page explains.
“Clicking on a post will open an inline reader view, right inside Ghost,
and when you get to the end you’ll be able to like, repost or reply.”
With the integration of these two feeds into Ghost’s admin, Ghost will also now allow its publishers to directly post short-form content to the fediverse, helping them to build their reputation and following on the open social web.
Ghost’s Reader also alerts users of interactions like follows, replies, likes, and reposts in its “Notifications” section.
Plus, users can customize their Profile page to offer a preview of their social web account,
following/followers, and their content, both short and long-form.
Later, the company hopes to more deeply integrate users’ social web profiles with Ghost memberships,
but for now, they operate independently from one another.
Other coming features include tools to block, report, and mute people or add images or media to notes and replies.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
#Substack rival #Ghost is now connected to the #fediverse
from #TechCrunch
Sarah Perez
11:25 AM PDT · March 19, 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
#Ghost is a FOSS self-hostable blogging platform which includes optional subscription features (it's effectively an ethical alternative to #Substack).
The devs are now connecting Ghost to the #Fediverse, the beta of Fediverse support has just been released for people who use Ghost's official hosting service:
https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta
You can find out more about their Fedi support at:
...and more about Ghost itself at:
(via @molly0xfff)
On #Substack I wrote a personal account of how I ended up writing poems based on science fiction/fantasy/horror elements https://open.substack.com/pub/richmagahiz/p/writing-past-the-edges-of-the-map?r=gnwin&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #specpo #blog
At this point, I’m not gonna click through to anything hosted on #substack.
Don’t really care any more. If the authors don’t care enough to at least provide an alternate feed at this point, I don’t care for their work.
Just an FYI to people who (legitimately) dislike #Substack because of the people behind it: You can support creators on the platform while not giving a penny to the operators.
I will say that many creators do not make this apparent, so people default to paying directly to Substack for the subscription when they could be compensating the creator directly.
