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So I'm curious: why does everyone suddenly have newsletters?
There's not a single selfhosted forum/subreddit/community/magazine/whatever that's NOT full of lots and lots and lots of people who suddenly have the need for a newsletter.
Like who is subscribing, and to what, and like... why?
It's all about getting visitors to come back to a website. People consume so much content every single day, so it's extremely easy for your website to be forgotten in all of the madness.
By having a newsletter you get recurring visitors, not just fly by clicks.
So basically an RSS feed for people who don't understand RSS feeds.
Yup rss is very scary
Scary in what context? For the user? For you as the host? Something else I’m not thinking of?
As a sarcastic joke comment. Whoosh?
Some news sources sell suvscrptions via newsletter.
Personally I find it quite nice, its similar to RSS and has high quality authors.
I get it as a means to generate revenue, but I wouldn't ever want to be responsible for mail deliverability if I'm getting paid for the email.
I'd just outsource that shit to SES, or mailgun, or mailchimp, or brevo, or whoeverthefuck and not worry about it.
The host it yourself thing just struck me as a weird thing that suddenly was EVERYWHERE I was looking and I couldn't figure out what in the world the use case was.
I agree with you, I don't want the trouble and just use mailgun free tier.
That said, I just need password reset emails for my IAM solution.
I imagine some just want to try, under the desire to avoid having their email data misused for data collection / ai training
One thing to address is that if you're sending lots of emails you start to raise concerns about being a spammer. Especially if somebody forgets they signed up for your newsletter and clicks "report as spam". It can be a quick way to get blocked from your mail provider since they can themselves become blocked and they'd rather ban you than deal with that hassle. Just be sure whoever you're sending mail through is okay with you sending "bulk" mail.
Oh my god.
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knadh/listmonk/master/
We absolutely need to stop this. Sure, I saw the disclaimer, but we need to end the normalization of running ANY black-box crap off the net. "curl|sh" needs to be laughed into exile for all our safety.
The easiest thing needs to be the right thing -- common security saying
Then it's
vim
As if that's actually user-friendly or a positive experience instead of the worst thing to ever survive from the last century, crawling along on its rotting flesh and drooling on the pavement like some toxic residue from the vietnam war that it is.
In what asylum do you have the people willing to suffer vi and who also need a curl|sh ? Are they lazy or just misled as noobs into thinking vi is the only editor out the--
You guys, I just realized how vi masochists actually reproduce. It's like zombies, guys, eating brains until the victim raises up another zombie.
And that curl|sh -- does it invite supply-chain exploits? Ohhh, you bet it does! Best black-box script ever! Use this as a test for your security people -- if they gauge this as a threat from within another threat, they pass. But, honestly, had it not been for the horrible spelling, I wouldn't have thought to check further. \shrug. Mineshafts and canaries I guess.
How are the alternatives any better? Download a DEB that executes arbitrary code, signed with some .asc that's sitting in the same webserver? Download an EXE?
Your comment is so rambley that I can't understand whether you're criticizing the distribution method or the packaging. Both of those are very different in terms of attack surface, if you're talking about supply chain attacks.
Ghost has a lot of these features as well as being a blog and handling paid subscriptions and donations.