Why Do I Use Substack?

Sermo liber vita ipsa (“Free Speech is Life Itself”)

I edited a weblog for 20 years. As my hosting site was free to use, I expected it to do what it must to earn money, mostly through the adverts that appeared in the margins.

One day, the host site demanded that I now open my page to NUMEROUS advertisements, some of a rather sketchy nature, enough that it would have jammed my margins and limited my word…