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>>This makes grazing onlookers hard to find you.

I assume you meant to say, 'this makes it hard for grazing onlookers to find you.'

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Exactly!

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Anyone know more about this? This sound very troubling.

Gotcha. The underlying modality of guiding the masses via technology is through covert change without the knowledge of the masses. For Substack to remain competitive with Twitter X and other competitors, is to use "marketing automation," which is an AI "blockchain" - lists of records (blocks), our records, that are secretly linked together via cryptographic hashes. These cryptography algorithms are what make tech companies competitive. Basically, we are feeding the AI platform to monitor all articles, & media. For this to work, changes must be made without customer awareness. Thus, the glitches we vaguely see in our daily use. Long story short, Substack is attempting to be the new Twitter X on steroids.

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" the platform only works with people who already know you"

I see that as a feature and not a bug TBH. I'd rather meet people here who are friends of friends than have some Silicon Valley based algorithm shoving people in my face for some opaque probably "woke" reason. It does mean your audience builds more slowly, quality over quantity IMO.

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You got that right. I liken it to working in an office that is monitored by speech & facial recognition. Remain alert and use the monitoring to speak the Truth for the world to see and hear. Algorithms are relative. Every platform uses them. It is what makes technology work. However, IF viewed as a mission field, droves can be introduced to the Truth.

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I’ve been wondering about the change in “Subscribe” to “Follow.” I don’t even know how to find my “followers”. Do you?

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Nope. I don't think anyone does. Plus, their new AI monitoring is messing with conversations. Hopefully, it's just a glitch they are working on.

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Ai monitoring? What's that?

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AI monitoring is the hidden page scanning system now used by most online networks and platforms. Over ninety percent of providers are now using it. As in what I am typing now, it scans and captures images and keyboard strokes - then files them in the mainframe of the provider. The provider usually sells the content to larger AI systems, like ChatBot. If you are on the internet, it is unavoidable. I use this madness method as a mission field.

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Interesting and depressing on an Orwellian level. Do you have any links or search terms I could use to get further information?

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Just type in "How does AI gather data?" That will start your journey. Don't ask an AI platform. They will give you information that is "cleansed" and convert to programming that is biased.

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BTW I work in the search industry at a low level. Can't say more NDA, but I can say all search at this point is somewhat processed by machine learning algos.

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So it's scraping data from here. In your opinion is this just to train LLMs or is there something else going on?

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Bro...I really needed to hear this. This really has been a challenge. Because of the amount of time I invest...I am in the top 11% of SubStack creators. And it has been a challenge. Thanks for the time you put into this article.

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If you are in the top 11%, that means you have over 1,000 subscribers. However, that may change as they try to level the playing field. There are rumblings that the new playing field will be based on reader/viewer comments and link restacks. Who knows? Most tech architects keep this stuff close to their inner circle. We do know many Substack writers are alarmed.

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No...I meant top 11% most consistent writers...from what they rell me. I had gotten even more confusing if anything.

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What do you mean you "had gotten even more confusing?"

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This is the first time I used a system...other than my own. It is a little frustrating when changes are made without your knowledge (i.e. followers vs subscribers) plus all the changes that coincide with those changes (Notifications, etc).

Now of course we can adapt...but a warning would be a sign of respect.

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Gotcha. The underlying modality of guiding the masses via technology is through covert change without the knowledge of the masses. For Substack to remain competitive with Twitter X and other competitors, is to use "marketing automation," which is an AI "blockchain" - lists of records (blocks), our records, that are secretly linked together via cryptographic hashes. These cryptography algorithms are what make tech companies competitive. Basically, we are feeding the AI platform to monitor all articles, & media. For this to work, changes must be made without customer awareness. Thus, the glitches we vaguely see in our daily use. Long story short, Substack is attempting to be the new Twitter X on steroids.

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I have a backup plan...since the day God explained to me what I was to be doing. This has been an amazing journey. The back-up plan should be fully engaged in another week.

God forbid anything happens...Telegram will support everything I am doing here.

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Folks, AI scanning, uses automated "delete" algorithms. If it detects anti-programmed content, it can delete files, pictures, and sometimes software. (A complaint by some Substack users) One of our Substack writers lost an entire chapter of his latest book this way. His mistake was using AI to help write the book. When he got into the End Times content - gone was his chapter. I lost an entire article for Substack in the same way. I contacted my buddy at Microsoft corporate and he said it was a glitch in their AI system that they were working on. Then he gave me the bad news that there was no way I could recapture my file. Save, then save again before posting - that's my survival tool.

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