Damkeeping, April 2023: New ways to interact with TYOK
Three new updates you otter know about...
Good evening, Otters! This is Ottavia Paluch and you’re reading Things You Otter Know.
First of all, a reminder that my Significant Otters interview with Carina Solis drops TOMORROW MORNING! I cannot wait for you to read it.
Now, as for this post: it’s one I’ve been thinking about for a while now. You already (otteready?) know that Things You Otter Know is back with a vengeance. And today I’m announcing three brand new additions to Things You Otter Know that I hope will convert more people into Otters and enrich ✨ the Otter experience ✨! Especially because I know a bunch of you personally, but I want nerdy strangers to embrace Otterdom, too! As my friend Dhwanee once said:
So here we go:
1. My new subscriber chat!
This is a conversation space in the Substack app that I’ve set up exclusively for my subscribers — kind of like a group chat or Discord server but exclusively for Otters. You might’ve seen other Substacks doing it. As for us, I’ll send stuff out depending on the amount of activity I see from y’all. I definitely don’t want to bombard you. You get enough texts in your life.
I’ll be sending out my first Chat tomorrow morning to coincide with the publication of my interview with Carina.
To join our chat, you’ll need to download the Substack app, now available for both iOS and Android. Chats are sent via the app, not email, so turn on push notifications so you don’t miss conversation as it happens. Download the app by clicking this link.
To find our Chat, open the app and tap the Chat icon.
Feel free to say hi if you see it!
2. Substack Notes, but make it Otterful!
Notes is a brand new space where you can publish short-form posts and share ideas with other writers and readers on Substack. You can share links, images, quick thoughts, and snippets from Substack posts.
It’s kind of like a Twitter copycat. And as Twitter continues to crumble under the “leadership” of Elon Musk, I might end up using this feature a whole lot in the future.
Notes lives in a tab beside Inbox at substack.com and in Substack’s mobile apps (see above). Unlike a post that I’d send to your inbox, a Notes post does NOT get sent to subscribers by email. So that’s where you can find my Notes!
Much like Chat, I’d recommend you download the Substack app if you want to see what I’m posting. I think I’ll start by cross-posting the stuff I say on Twitter, but we’ll see where this takes me.
3. Cross-posts!
Many of you who joined the Dam because you knew me on Twitter love to rave about all the cool articles I like to tweet out on occasion. And let me tell you, that really feeds my ego!
Now, Substack has this feature called cross-posting, which is this new way for you to share another Substack publication’s post with your audience. You can add commentary to a post and share that post with your audience via email. And that’s exactly what I’ll be doing from here on out!
Not because I want you to get more emails, but because something on Substack really resonated with me and I want to reach more people. So keep an eye out for those. I also don’t think I’ll be sending these out too often because my inbox is a permanent mess, but let’s aim for maybe 2-3 times a month.
That’s all, folks! Off to watch the Leafs play a playoff game. I am ready to be hurt again.
See you tomorrow morning.
🦦 —O— 🦦