Not surprised that the wise @molly0xfff is one of the people taking the lead in moving away from Substack.

She also made one of the best choices in my mind to go for an independent home, self-hosting Ghost. And managed to do it with minimum impact for existing subscribers.

I do know this is not for everyone, but also know that you don’t necessarily need a VPS to host Ghost, there is managed hosting available – and many more options than the quite expensive official one.

Molly White’s post on the hows and whys is here:
https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/