Substack Alternatives

Medium is an open bloging and publishing platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.

Locals is a new social network and content platform that rewards content creators. With Locals, you can get exclusive content directly from a creator that is never censored or filtered by an algorithm. Anyone can become a support and unlock an ad-free content library of your favorite creator. The open nature of the platform allows you to connect with members who have shared values and express your own views by creating your own posts and engage in healthy and productive discussions via comments. Locals is avalible as a web app and for Android and iOS.

Tumblr is a an easy to use microblogging site and social network first released in 2007. On Tumblr, people can share stories via blogs and other media such as photos, GIFs, links and third party platform embeds such as Spotify playlist and tracks. All users of Tumblr can follow each other to get up-to-date content from the creators you live. There is also private publishing features which allow you to share your stories only to a select group or community. Over 500 milion people use Tumblr to share contet on the web for free.

Ghost is a free and open-source headless CMS and blogging platform developed by Ghost Foundation. With Ghost you can manage content in style, the user experience provided by the software is intuitive and encourages writing. Ghost is written in JavaScript for the Node.js platform and is released under the MIT license.

Now blogging is as easy as emailing. With HEY World, personal publishing gets the HEY treatment. Allowing users of the email service HEY.com to publish articles to the world by sending an to world@hey.com. Once you press send HEY take your email and post it to world.hey.com/you/your-post-title. Allowing anyone in the world to view your article, without trackers, cookies, or javascript.