Stop Begging for Restacks. Do This Instead.

You can’t game the algorithm. You can’t hack your way to restacks. But you can become someone worth engaging with. Here’s how — from someone who will never teach you “audience building.”

Someone in my community asked me this question last week and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it:

“When I ask for restacking, people never do. And many people put links in comments instead of the Note itself.

In the CTAs in Substack Notes, is it ok to put links or does the algorithm penalize you? Do images of the post distract people?”

I love thi…