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This was a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge successNo, seriously, it was awful. I deleted my blog of 1,557 posts. I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with articles about me in New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. I lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees. I accidentally sent about three hundred emails to each of five thousand people in the process of trying to put my blog back up.
I had, not to mince words about it, a really weird year.
The first post on Scott Alexander's new blog on Substack, Astral Codex Ten.
Does Scott's contract with Substack prevent automatic cross-posting here? I really do loathe Substack as a UI.
Made by Scott. We gave him a tag he could apply to posts that would automatically cause that post to crosspost. Good chance we will set up something similar for the new blog (if possible).