(VERY PARTIAL) CROSSPOST: ALEX HEATH: SubStack Is Opening Up to AI: Interviewing CEO Chris Best

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A platform built for writer–reader relationships now has to survive venture capital, discovery algorithms, and AI intermediaries in a world of frictionless payments, neo-Nazi edge cases, TikTok brain-melt and ad-driven outrage brain-hacking feeds…Just a couple of bits from an interview SubStack honcho Chris Best gave a couple of weeks ago. To summarize: Chris Best:Each publication should be its own corner of the internet that the author effectively owns: SubStack wants to become the last good-app agora—giving writers a fighting chance to matter.SubStack is “blogging with a business model”: people come to SubStack for guidance on what matters and what to care about. SubStack is proof that reading isn’t dying, some of its previous form factors are.Writers who think they can leave once they are big tend to badly underestimate how much the SubStack discovery funnel is doing.The internet has “barbelled”: some people don’t read at all, some lose their mind on TikTok, and some read more than ever. Legacy media sites drowned readers in bad UX (horrible CSS, jumping videos). Subscriptions are underrated and align incentives toward depth, quality, independence, and creator control.Some sponsorship forms can be compatible with high-quality work if structured to deepen relationships.SubsSack is opening up to AI via MCP: supporting writers means integrating with the tools they want.“Slop” = content made “without intention,” that nobody believes in—AI didn’t invent slop but massively scales it; the key is intention.Just “making the good thing” you believe in is necessary but not sufficie…