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Linda Louise “Tosca”Hueston's avatar

Good morning from Canada David. You are correct that Substack is undermining you and it’s happening at their management level.

Every single morning, I wake up to messages I receive from activist shills who share and receive foul anti-Trump messages in the thread conversation. I do not follow these people! I block them and everyday theres a new one with the same crap. I suspect these may not be real accounts; they actually may be Substack staffers themselves - and what does that make them and Substack? Well the answer is Paid Activism. Subscribers are used as feeder corridors for radical anti -Trump opinions. Honestly I cannot look at it any other way! So I copied you on my reply to them this morning. They are a bunch of butt scratchers and nose pickers on the taxpayers dollars and sitting in university and government offices pumping out communist messaging to your subscribers. Enjoy reading the copy i sent to you of my response to Substack. Im going to call out Substack loud and clear every single time.

James MC's avatar

David, you speak for the majority of ordinary people on most matters. It's only the woke left and the establishment you would think your views extreme.

Too many people have chilled into not saying what they think for fear of what would happen to them. Look at Graham Linehan for example.

Yesterday I picked up a 50p coin to find the word Diversity inscribed on the front. The propaganda is everywhere.

So it's great to have people like you voicing what we think, what was normality, not that long ago.

As a subscriber I'd urge others if they can to do so.

Sometimes you only realise the value of something when it's gone.

David Vance's avatar

I really appreciate that.

Kevin rowlands's avatar

The establishment is powerfull hates the truth

Linda Louise “Tosca”Hueston's avatar

Shared to X for you David.

David Vance's avatar

Thank you so much!

AmandaL's avatar

I'm happy to be a paid subscriber and enjoy your posts which are not extreme. In fact, I suspect the vast majority in this country would agree with you. Please keep writing - we need voices like yours.

David Vance's avatar

Thank you so much, Amanda

Sara's avatar

David I have also noticed as a free subscriber that Substack algirthyms/programmed AI is trying to stop some posts, altering words at times and jumps around so much it is an very negative look re technology, niw an sure they wouldn't want that?!

Any more of it means is time to find another platform and there are plenty of others, they know it too

By the way I have also Co. E to the conclusion it is being monitored by....... Take your pick.

Have had an alleged subscriber as Robert Generick nothing on the profile or anywhere else!

BillyO's avatar

I genuinely enjoy your posts and I’m very interested in Substack’s response to your challenge. If for no other reason, they should respond to a lack of security in their own System that allows an outsider to affect their supposedly secure data feed. If, on the other hand, it is an insider…then that is dramatically worse for them as it puts on display active efforts to destabilize their platform from within.

Joe's avatar

That is a fascinating point.

If it is internal, it means the Substack hierarchy either leaned nothing from the events of the past 5 years, or they are complicit.

Hellish 2050's avatar

Since early this year my growth in total subscribers has slowed very significantly, having been growing steadily last year.

It is a struggle to gain new subscribers of any sort, whether paid or not.

Unless I keep going with finding new, I suspect that my total figures would also be going down now.

David Vance's avatar

My subscriber base is vanishing here at a time when my follower base on X jumped by 40,000 to over 300,000. Something about Substack is very fake

Kat Harvey's avatar

This may not be the work of Substack but of other people who have nothing better to do than interfere politically and in secret. I feel sure that anything can be hacked by those with the intention so to do.

You can only draw the Substack team’s attention to it and say that you intend to get professional help to ensure your security if they can’t deal with it. It will do their reputation no end of harm if Substack is revealed as being open to hackers after all they promise. Security is their main selling point, they would be foolish to risk it.