And that's OK. All these "gentle musings," invitations to "grow," and inspirational Instagram copypastas are doing wonders for my doomscrolling habits.
I enjoyed this and you're very much preaching to the converted. Even though I barely know a thing about medical terminology, that paragraph beginning with "I’m not entirely sure why Substack thinks I want to see saccharine platitudes..." and ending with "dehisced sternal incision" cracked me up. That's comedy gold.
And I was delighted to see your rant on 'gentle musings' and its brethren. I've long been a prankster on notes and I've loved calling people out on their excessive use of 'musings' (and its iterations) as well as the endless overearnest banal empty platitudes exhorting us to 'show up' more often and 'be present' and 'never give up' and blah blah blah. In homage to this drivel, I even wrote a book on a daily journalling theme, with a subtitle that included 'musings' in it. I doubt people will pick up on my ironic use of it.
The algorithm has somehow led me to you! So here I am.
I think that once you follow more people, it starts to show you content from them and people they like. But it doesn't explain why, out of the box, you see so many exiles from Insta. But maybe it's a reaction to the stressful stuff that you get on other platforms. That said, when I first looked at Notes, I saw loads of posts from people telling me they'd given up their day jobs to write here and how awesome it is (but then, I suppose it makes sense that they'd surface Notes that make them sound good!).
As they say, a broken clock is right at least twice a day! Glad you're here. 🙂
And yes, you're right; Substack's algorithm does gradually start feeding you more personally relevant content the more you subscribe to and follow other writers. It does seem to take an awfully long time to clue in to the fact that you DON'T want to see certain types of posts, however. If I had a quarter for every subscriber growth-related post I saw in my homepage feed, I could join the ranks of those giving up their day jobs!
I enjoyed this and you're very much preaching to the converted. Even though I barely know a thing about medical terminology, that paragraph beginning with "I’m not entirely sure why Substack thinks I want to see saccharine platitudes..." and ending with "dehisced sternal incision" cracked me up. That's comedy gold.
And I was delighted to see your rant on 'gentle musings' and its brethren. I've long been a prankster on notes and I've loved calling people out on their excessive use of 'musings' (and its iterations) as well as the endless overearnest banal empty platitudes exhorting us to 'show up' more often and 'be present' and 'never give up' and blah blah blah. In homage to this drivel, I even wrote a book on a daily journalling theme, with a subtitle that included 'musings' in it. I doubt people will pick up on my ironic use of it.
The algorithm has somehow led me to you! So here I am.
I think that once you follow more people, it starts to show you content from them and people they like. But it doesn't explain why, out of the box, you see so many exiles from Insta. But maybe it's a reaction to the stressful stuff that you get on other platforms. That said, when I first looked at Notes, I saw loads of posts from people telling me they'd given up their day jobs to write here and how awesome it is (but then, I suppose it makes sense that they'd surface Notes that make them sound good!).
As they say, a broken clock is right at least twice a day! Glad you're here. 🙂
And yes, you're right; Substack's algorithm does gradually start feeding you more personally relevant content the more you subscribe to and follow other writers. It does seem to take an awfully long time to clue in to the fact that you DON'T want to see certain types of posts, however. If I had a quarter for every subscriber growth-related post I saw in my homepage feed, I could join the ranks of those giving up their day jobs!
Yes to all of this! Also if you ever need a pal to share old medieval art memes with? I'm your gal 😁
You'd probably appreciate this one! https://imgur.com/a/jfaDKdz