https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/freddie-nitro-edition-there-you-go
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/non-nitro-edition-substack-and-media
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/behavior-is-the-product-of-incentives
Although it is possible to read deBoer's trio of posts as an experiment in online rage and reactions that might be too fly-over an appraisal of what deBoer was doing at his new Substack blog. As deBoer put
it at his new Substack blog, what he did was an experiment from the subscription/analytics side of what kinds of posts get what level of attention and subscription activity. The "Nitro" post got more
readership and reactions than the "non-nitro" version of the same core observation about a journalist's assessment of Substack as something harmful to more traditional journalism.
Now people have been saying traditional newspaper-based and magazine-based journalism has been dying a slow and miserable death for at least a generation. Some people, like Andrey Mir, think that journalism is going to die out and that postjournalism, a new form of ... let's not label it just yet ... information dissemination customs is going to emerge. Journalists call it "activist journalism" but if you're not for whatever the activist journalist is for then you might regard it as agitation propaganda or tract writing.
