#OpenTabs v0.83: I'm in my Closing Tabs era.
Hey, Internet Explorers.
Not to be totally anti-climactic, but this is the end of Open Tabs. I’m in my Closing Tabs era, like the song. “Closing Tabs, open all the doors and let you out into the world.”
I was already uncertain about how to continue on with Open Tabs. And then, this platform (Substack, to be clear) came out and said yo, we’re cool with Nazi shit happening on this site!
No, really. For months, creators and users have pressured Substack to take action on the increasing number of actual Nazis cultivating audiences here. The founder gave a BS “free speech” response, and then we had some false hope — Substack announced they’d removed some Nazi accounts.
Five, as it turns out.
Some of the largest creators on Substack have left, so I feel like this platform is heading in the same direction as Twitter, where it’s okay to be a literal Nazi and where everyone sane has left for greener pastures.
Every major platform has community management issues. Some deal with these things be…
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