some of those other social platforms are terrible in their toxic awfulness
on the counterside, a place like substack is its own kind of tower of babel burdensome curse: it's just too much — always learning, always reading, drinking from the firehose, drowning in words and wit
just give me a book and a tree and a patch of grass for my bare toes
Jun 3, 2025
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an iconic place to dump your thoughts, ideas, and ramblings onto a group of friends who actively signed up to hear about your shit every few weeks. the best part is it's illegal under federal law for anybody to ever unsubscribe, so you've got ppl in a chokehold for infinity and beyond <333
just wrote something about the age of early aughts social media, Kyle Chayka's latest book Filterworld, and where we go from here (PI.FYI is obvi mentioned).
Jan 25, 2024
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I think I finally found a place to share my longest thoughts without the feeling of been judged.
I feel that here on PI I can just spit some random things and there I can elaborate better with longer texts.
these both apps are the perfect replacement for twitter and I love it
Mar 17, 2025
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There are countless creative contributors on Substack and hearing their input about various things like smoking cigarettes, aging, love, and the trials and tribulations of being a living human being tickles my brain.
Apr 24, 2025
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this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
Mar 11, 2025