I started this Substack just as a place to put some random musings. A short while later the whole world went crazy with COVID-19 hysteria. I ended up using this Substack to help publicise the work of others and to record some of my own observations, especially around modelling and masks.
Anyone who follows either me or Orwell on Twitter/X may have noticed that we have started to deep dive on Climate things.
I am planning on writing up more detailed posts on Climate, and Orwell has expressed some interest in perhaps collaborating on the effort. What I would like to know is where to put such posts.
So with that as the background, here’s the first question for you
Now a few months back I started up a second Substack to hold posts about the Irish Hate Speech legislation. While I personally like the avatar and branding I created for that Substack, it seems not many of you are interested enough to subscribe to it. So I have two questions about that.
There is no judgement about what you choose to do and where you choose to click “Subscribe”, but I am interested in your answer
This brings up the question of what to do with the content on Climate…
I could create a new stack
I could alternatively create what is known as a sub-section that allows you to subscribe/unsubscribe separately. The advantage of a sub-section is that I can add all existing followers to start but you can unsubscribe from that section independently
I could post the Climate content without notifying subscribers. You’ll still see the post in the Substack app or if you go looking, but no email
I could just post them with notifications like this post
Thank you for your time reading this and thank you to everyone who votes in the polls
I reckon all the topics are related. Anyone interested in any of the radical changes currently facing society will eventually be interested in the other topics, too (whether about public health, environmental crises, energy, freedom of speech, migration, etc.
You’re more likely to win new readers by introducing something new than to alienate new ones. Besides, often such topics are interrelated.
That said, know what you do best and keep your focus there.
I miss a lot of stuff that I am interested in due to time and personal issues. I started following you during Covid but view all the current crises
as related (with the attack on the freedom, health and livelihoods of ordinary people as the common thread) and so it seems natural to me that you or anyone else trying to contribute to the debate would branch out to new topics. I don't see any harm in mixing different topics on the same Stack as many Substackers do that and I doubt it affects their following. I also personally appreciate notifications because if I see from the title that the post interests me I will read it. Otherwise I might never see it. But maybe that's just me. Slán!