Mojeek must be aware of Substack’s Nazi problem by now, so why is it exclusively promoting Substack on its homepage instead of doing more general blog searches and including other platforms such as Ghost, Beehiiv, and Wordpress, for example?
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We are not promoting Substack, but the point is understood. We are simply being transparent. Had we set the link as “Blog” rather than “Substack” we would not be transparent, whilst we only have that as a source. This is simply a question of resources. We always intended to add more sources to the blog search but we have been working on other priorities since starting it with just Substack. When this changes the homepage link will be changed to “Blog”.
The “Nazi problem” is an opinion. I would point out that Susbstack has a writers with a diverse range of opinions. You can see that from a simple search nazi - Mojeek Search. You may note, for example, that result 4 is from Tim Snyder https://snyder.substack.com/ whose “work concerns east European history, the Holocaust, the history of the Soviet Union, and the history of Ukraine.”
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wow
translation: “Mojeek must be aware of Substack’s free-speech problem by now”
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So, I didn’t know anything about this issue until this thread.
Here’s the relevant open letter: Substackers Against Nazis – Snack Stack
today’s so-called “nazi” is most often an arbitrarily applied label attached any person or group that someone disagrees with
free speech is binary; you either have it, or you don’t, and those pushing to inhibit the human right of others to voice their opinions are blindly castrating themselves in the process
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