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Congrats Dan and glad to have helped a tad. ;)

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Hi Dan, well done on reaching 10,000 subscribers. And more than that well done on your resilience in the face of relentless censorship. I have no doubt at all that you are being throttled on Substack. In mid-October 2021 I hit my first, and LAST, viral article. It was about a brave Australian policeman who quit the force in protest at the COVID-totalitarianism and went out on the front lines of the protest movment. I shared his statement about why he did it. It went viral and in 5 days I had over 30,000 views, mainly from Facebook shares. And then it stopped. It fell off a cliff to zero. Bang. Dead. In that 5 days I had added hundreds of new subscribers.

But ever since the day that it stopped my Substack has crawled along. Facebook started shadow banning me, and threatened me numerous times. Until I got so frustrated with the Facebook Nazis that I locked my account and literally stopped any real sharing on the platform - there was ZERO point it went nowhere. Twitter was the same. I only have 962 people following on that platform, and links to Substack are never engaged. I am guilty of losing impetus to do what you have done which was to keep pouring it out. Another thing that I have noticed with Substack over a long period of time is that every time I send out an article, and pick up a few new subscribers I also seem to lose a few at the same time. So it either cancels out the gains or just craws along. And I've few subscribers who've paid, which considering I don't post often that is fair enough - though a few people sent me tips on the Kofi platform. Total paid subs out of nearly 700 - 4 at the height but it's dropped down to 2. I came to the conclusion that due to the vicious censorship of the Silicon Valley tyrants that there is literally NO MONEY IN TELLING THE TRUTH on Social Media. Or at least there is no money in telling the truth about the Evil that rules Mankind. As a result I am looking around for new ways to reinvent. myself and stay safe in the age of multinationals terrorism. We are simply living with the same evil that attacked all the colonies but since WW2 they've managed to take it global.

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