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“I can’t leave Substack, the alternatives charge monthly fees!”
For a mid-sized paid newsletter, you will pay:
Ghost Pro: $149–$269/month
Beehiiv: $131–$218/month
Buttondown: $239/month
Mailchimp: $285/month
Substack: $700/month
(this is based on assumptions of 20,000 members, 7% paid at $5/mo. twiddle the math as you see fit)
Cheapest option is self-hosting, though of course there is added time cost and a technical barrier to entry. I pay $100–$150/mo to self-host Ghost with a bit over 25,000 subscribers.
For free newsletters, Beehiiv is free for up to 2,500 subscribers. ConvertKit is free up to 10,000.
Adding to this thread because a bunch of people are asking: newsletters are expensive to run because of mailsending, not because of hosting costs. ~70% of my cost is for bulk email. A plain old static blog can be hosted for a couple bucks a month.
@molly0xfff Interesting. How has this happened? Why do we need expensive centralized services to use the very egalitarian protocol SMTP?
@devtrash @molly0xfff To phrase it otherwise: a problem with moderation?
@publictorsten this *could* be solved with end-to-end signatures.
GnuPG sign every email, at mailservers accept properly signed emails from recipients your users authorized by sending an email to you (the subscription email) which contains a one-time secret your mailserver checks (provided in the mailto:link as subject).
If the different GnuPG frontends were actually compatible.
@devtrash @molly0xfff
@ArneBab Is PGP crypt-then-sign or sign-then-crypt?
If the first, then directly checking the signature should be sufficient?
@vampirdaddy I think checking the sig should be enough, yes.
Since this is a likely non-sensitive newsletter, it wouldn’t even have to be encrypted. The initial subscription mail just has the intention of telling the receiver mailserver that the newsletter address is genuine.