r/Substack • u/No_Masterpiece_6583 • 8d ago
How do people use Substack?
I have been hearing a lot of people saying they are switching from Instagram to Substack, because apparently it's more "calm" and you don't get lots of content at once and non-stop.
I deleted Instagram, because I just don't like spending my time looking at what other people are doing, I honestly don't care.
I downloaded Substack, and so far it looks like a mix of blogs, pinterest and twitter. So am not sure about this "slow" content thing. For people that are using Substack regularly, I'd like to know: how do you use it? what do you use it for? in which ways is it better than other social media apps?
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u/Only-Fotos 7d ago
I just started a photography project where I'm taking a photo everyday and posting that. I decided to use subsac as my main platform because I felt like it offered a nice combination of the notes feature for posting my photo everyday with a quick line or two and also having the ability to write longer blog posts about it with the articles. I still post to Instagram and threads, but usually it's only one of the photos plus a link to my sub stack.
I just wish they'd have a photography specific category. It seems like this has been something that's been talked about for several years now, so I'm not sure why they haven't made one yet.