Substack mechanics from the inside: algorithm changes, growth without notes, payment infrastructure, the dashboard after a ban. Field reports.
Build an AI assistant as a backup channel to your own site, email, and files. Notion memory, OpenRouter, crypto, WordPress connectors, and the honest limits — full stack explained.
Reading the Platform — Part 10 of 21. Part 9 ended on the point that a handle is the author’s
They ban the account. The name does not disappear — the platform keeps it. Why your handle is your property, not their service. Part 9.
When a platform bans an author, the account vanishes — but the name does not. The handle stays in the system, and the platform keeps disposing of it. Why a handle is the author’s property, not the platform’s service — and the doctrine that proves it.
A backup off Substack, built before the ban: what it costs, where it lives, and why ‘WordPress’ is two different things you must not confuse.
Tell me about your ban. What happened, when, what they told you — or didn’t. There is a page for it now.
Reading the Platform — Part 8 of 21. Anderson v. TikTok punched the first hole in the wall of 1996
Arc I of Reading Substack is complete — six parts on how a platform makes itself almost impossible to touch in court.
How Anderson v. TikTok cracked Section 230 — a platform’s algorithm is its own speech — and what that means for Substack bans. Part 7 of Reading Substack.
Cycle: Lintara Reads the Platform. Part 6 of 28. The fifth armor layer. The last one in this arc. It’s