“I can’t leave Substack, the alternatives charge monthly fees!”
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@sashin I self-host Ghost, which sends emails via Mailgun
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@molly0xfff @usul from a tech stack perspective, distribution sure would be a lot easier if authenticated RSS was a thing (besides clear text feed tokens). Any other solutions on the horizon?
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@molly0xfff The well known liberal and progressive names on substack can afford it. They don't want to lose readers who may not bother following them to their new platform.
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I've just subscribed to your RSS feed. How many people use that instead of the email newsletter subscriptions, so on top of the 25,000? -
@rochelimit no idea! that’s one of the great things about RSS, it’s much less trackable
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@Methylcobalamin moving away from Substack is pretty much seamless on the subscriber end
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Molly Whitereplied to Molly White last edited by [email protected]
For those who aren’t a fan of my 20,000 number, here’s a breakdown:
(edited to fix an error in self-hosted ghost for 50k subs)
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@molly0xfff thanks for sharing these details.
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Keith Harrison :clubtwit:replied to Molly White last edited by
@molly0xfff Isn’t ConvertKit only free up to 1,000? Pricing similar to mailchimp.
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@molly0xfff Not matter how easy it is, I think a lot of people just wouldn't bother.
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@Methylcobalamin it’s not a question of whether they’d bother, there’s no effort required by the subscriber
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Molly Whitereplied to Keith Harrison :clubtwit: last edited by
@kharrison no, it’s 10k now
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@molly0xfff Why do you think people who can easily afford those new platform fees haven't been migrating?
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@Methylcobalamin It’s scary to shake things up if it’s your income, and there is certainly non-zero effort on the writer’s end in moving. Plus Substack really likes to talk up its network effects, to try to instill concern that people will see their growth flatline if they leave.
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@molly0xfff stupid question, but isn't that cost offset by payment for the subs? if I have 20000 subs how much is that bringing in? (if self-hosting, I assume 20000 "subs" is no income at all)
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@huxley yes, it would be offset in most cases.
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@molly0xfff How do these platform compare when it comes to owners control of the user data? Is it easy to migrate between platforms?
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@jarekkopec Substack has always boasted of portability, but they seem to be rapidly building walls with things like their “follow” feature. Ghost is excellent. Not personally super familiar with the others.
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Saxnot 🚀#38C3:☎️7296replied to Molly White last edited by
@molly0xfff a newsletter is just a mailing list with only admins being able to send, right?
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Molly Whitereplied to Saxnot 🚀#38C3:☎️7296 last edited by
@saxnot mailing lists may be free but successfully doing bulk mailsending very much is not
