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The not-Twitter social network that Elon Musk was freaking out about is here. Join us!

Hey pals. It’s Emilie from The Culture Journalist. I just published my first note on Substack Notes, which is about an idea I’ve been kicking around for a minute now.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about how Twitter started throttling links from this platform last week after it came out that Substack was creating its own proprietary social network for bloggers and readers. As Andrea pointed out, it felt like a pretty perfect illustration of the dynamics that Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow discuss in their excellent new book Chokepoint Capitalism, and which Cory was kind enough to come on the show to discuss the other week. Which is ironic, because look at what happened when people tried to access that episode via Twitter:

Just like the platform’s decision to label NPR as a “state-affiliated media,” it was a pretty cruel thing to do to bloggers and podcasters at a time when the entire journalism profession is already having a pretty rough year. Kudos to KC…