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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