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I have been trying to setup my own newsletter for ages.

All of the platforms that I researched asked for stupid amounts of money for the services they where offering.

20$/month for 500 subscribers is not fair pricing mailchimp.

So I looked around the web for selfhosted solutions. Finally I found Listmonk, it's a selfhosted newsletter and mailing list manager, written in go and is extremely performant.

So I wrote an article on how to set that up!

I hope this helps some fellow selfhosters!

If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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?

[–] 4rkal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So basically an RSS feed for people who don't understand RSS feeds.

[–] 4rkal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scary in what context? For the user? For you as the host? Something else I’m not thinking of?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

As a sarcastic joke comment. Whoosh?

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