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   Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:51:46 JST Colin Devroe

   A newsletter hosted on your own domain becomes a blog. The best of both worlds. Please host newsletters on your own domain.

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 00:03:06 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Ted Mielczarek
     • Buttondown

     @tedmielczarek Sending attractive email messages to large groups of addresses is still difficult. Which is why @buttondown et al exists. The value, unlike a typical blog, is that the publisher has direct access to the reader and - presumably - a direct line to their inbox which may _never_ change.

     I love newsletters in that I like regularly published content on a schedule that feels as though it is written for a specific readership. But I prefer RSS as the delivery mechanism personally.

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     Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 00:03:06 JST Buttondown

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     • Ted Mielczarek

     @cdevroe @tedmielczarek agreed on both parts! philosophically, I think the "email" part of newsletters is in many ways an implementation detail: it just so happens to be the dominant mode of subscribing to a given work that we have.

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     Ted Mielczarek (tedmielczarek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 00:03:07 JST Ted Mielczarek

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     @cdevroe it's so weird that "newsletters" are the hot thing right now but they're functionally just hosted blogs with a list of subscribers?