SubStack or Patreon?
Related: 4K and 5K display, computer display, Patreon, Photoshop, videos by Lloyd
TIP: watch at 4K on a 5K display for greatest ease of viewing. Also, 1.25X speed might be useful.
I am experimenting with my offerings.
SubStack is becoming very popular, but I don’t know if it fits well for me or not. It seems more essay-oriented from everything I’ve seen, and I’ve been thinking more about the video side. Still, they just did a major upgrade for videos, so that's something.
But I hear that X is blocking outgoing links to SubStack, a huge negative.
Yet if this writer’s take has even partial legitimacy, then I have to take a hard look at SubStack before I commit too much to Patreon. And already I’ve found that Patreon moves very slowly on improvements, and does ultra-stupid things like not being able to gift a subscription, so I can’t even give my own family or friends.
As a writer, I spent six years slogging away on Patreon, only to move to Substack and quadruple my subscriber number in under four months. I’m no mathematician, but I like those numbers.
Each platform has its issues.
As an experiment, I wrote my first SubStack post on this very topic. The first thing I found is that my 4K video is delivered as 2K (1080p), which in and of itself makes SubStack dead on arrival. Can SubStack deliver high quality 4K video?
