Substack Notes
Whoever runs Substack has added a “notes” feature, which I have not really had time to look at. As regular readers will be ware, “my social media presence” is on Twitter. In addition to making stupid tweets, I use Twitter to get news as well as a filter for reading suggestions. In Ye Olde Days, I used aggregator blogs, but Twitter is a lot better and you have more control over “curation.” (I have found that even the post-Elon algorithmic feed is actually tolerable as the result of strategic blocks, mutes, and “liking” a lot of tweets — so the algorithm knows what to feed me.)
Since a lot of economics/finance bloggers migrated to Substack, Notes could work as a Twitter replacement for economics content. Rather than leaving comments on posts, just do it on Notes. (Right now, I am getting Ukraine war news from Twitter, which I doubt that I could get on Notes.)
Right now, the only downside is that following on Notes is not decoupled from following the Substack itself (as far as I can tell). I would rather follow a lot of accounts on Notes and just jump to articles that look interesting than end up with a wall of articles in my email every day. My guess is that Substack management will also want to reduce the amount of emails being sent.
Right now, I am getting hit with a few projects and have been working on my inflation book, so probably no substantive article until next week.
Sounds like you really liked the filtering Twitter allowed the government to do pre-Musk... To each his own.
Then, you only want the notes, and I only want the articles, from those like yourself to whom I subscribe, as the alerts section now crowds out with "testing notes" notes, any replies to comments, or like tbwcwolf, the lack thereof. First impressions.