Substack vs X

Hamish McKenzie

and I plan to have a series of candid co-founder conversations live on Substack. This first one is a doozy.

• Right as we started, we found out

  Ken Klippenstein
  seems to have been banned from X after publishing the JD Vance dossier.
  Judd Legum
  broke this story but declined to release it.

• We tell the story of introducing Substack Notes, and the brief total censorship on X of the word “Substack”, and what’s happened since. Spoiler alert: none of the attempts to kill Substack thus far have been successful.

• Why Substack different than X, Instagram, etc?

We plan to do these every week, and there may be parts we don’t publish after, so be sure to get the Substack app so you can follow along.