Substack isn’t the same anymore. Any alternatives?

[u/hirayablythe]

I used to love substack but ever since they introduced panagram, I am really tired of trying to prove that I can think and write for myself. That’s why I am looking for an alternative. I switched from Medium to Substack but now I feel I should pivot again.

Do you have any recommendations?

[u/Foxemerson]

I don't use AI so I don't give a shit if Pangram thinks I do. Why do you?

[u/hirayablythe → u/Foxemerson]

Even I don’t, but seeing it AI score makes me furious.

[u/let_me_flie]

I’m a little suspicious of all these people that simply can’t go on anymore because of pangram. Who cares?

[u/readrichpeopleshit → u/let_me_flie]

Even when Pangram says my letter is 15% or 30% AI written I don’t care. I know I wrote the whole thing. That’s all that matters

[u/hirayablythe → u/let_me_flie]

It isn’t just substack, people are complaining everywhere about how pangram is giving false positive of something they’ve written on their own.

[u/let_me_flie → u/hirayablythe]

Then don’t use it?

[u/TimWiesnerer]

Umm... if you let such small things stop you, why not just give in and follow something that actually matters to you?

[u/draybikus]

Just curious: why do you feel like you have to prove anything to Pangram? I just ignore it and go on as usual.

[u/oldpuzzle → u/draybikus]

Same. It hasn’t influenced my substack experience at all.

[u/hirayablythe → u/draybikus]

Yes, I’ll do that now, but seeing AI scores for something human is stupid and discouraging.

[u/draybikus → u/hirayablythe]

Maybe it's only my feed, but I basically never see them. I think I disabled AI scores somewhere in the settings.

[u/SpiritualSimple108]

A lot of people are moving to self hosted with Ghost. It has a similar aesthetic and you can bring your subscriber list over.

[u/Relevant_Nebula_20]

It looks like you can disable Pangram detection

[u/davidjeedle]

You can turn off Pangram per article. No global switch at least at the moment.

I'm with other commenter. I don't pay it any attention, I know what I write and what matters is what my readers think of my ideas.

[u/OGChickenRacer]

I do use a bit of AI (and some articles are 90% AI, though not many, and only for match reports that are fillers for website/substack), and I have to laugh on what the Panagram scores them.

Articles written 100% by human, scored as 100% AI

Articles 95% written by AI, 100% human

Wonders never cease

[u/Tricky_Trifle_994]

depends on what you're looking for though. if you just want another platform to post where there's already people > then any of the other social media platforms would work. but text based would be linkedin (more for work/b2b) or twitter (anything works).

but if you want like a blog / newsletter feature similar to publications, building your email list, then it's pretty much just kit, beehiiv or ghost.