"The 'Why I’m Leaving Substack' post is the new 'Goodbye to All That,'” writes Sarah Scrier for NiemanLab. Some top newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia Sole-Smith — have left Substack for Patreon. Email delivery issues, poor technical support and an overemphasis on social features were reasons for their departure. Both Petersen and Lenz also referenced Substack's platforming of Nazis and hate speech in their farewell notes. Here's more.

https://flip.it/L22UTT

#Media #News #Publishing #Substack #Patreon #Newsletters #LyzLenz #AnneHelenPetersen #VirginiaSoleSmith

"The 'Why I’m Leaving Substack' post is the new 'Goodbye to All That,'” writes Sarah Scrier for NiemanLab. Some top newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia Sole-Smith — have left Substack for Patreon. Email delivery issues, poor technical support and an overemphasis on social features were reasons for their departure. Both Petersen and Lenz also referenced Substack's platforming of Nazis and hate speech in their farewell notes. Here's more.

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#Media #News #Publishing #Substack #Patreon #Newsletters #LyzLenz #AnneHelenPetersen #VirginiaSoleSmith

Petit coup de bouche à oreille pour les liens du dimanche « De ma terrasse » de @tcrouzet :
https://tcrouzet.substack.com/p/de-ma-terrasse-29

car quand même, j'y lis souvent des trucs que je ne vois passer nulle part ailleurs. Merci !

#IA #Sciences #Astrophysique #NewsLetters

Petit coup de bouche à oreille pour les liens du dimanche « De ma terrasse » de @tcrouzet :
https://tcrouzet.substack.com/p/de-ma-terrasse-29

car quand même, j'y lis souvent des trucs que je ne vois passer nulle part ailleurs. Merci !

#IA #Sciences #Astrophysique #NewsLetters

"The days of us being able to walk on [to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" @404mediaco's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people from social media platforms that we don’t control to platforms that we do control, this business isn’t going to work and we aren’t going to have jobs anymore.” This led the team at 404 to ask readers for email addresses and put older stories behind paywalls, which totally transformed their business. Here's more from NiemanLab on what 404, The Economist and El País have learned about how to attract and retain readers in today's media environment.

https://flip.it/US6PS0

#Media #Journalism #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #Newsletters #MediaIndustry

There have been various proposals for imposing a cost on sending email, to reduce the temptation to spam;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-based_anti-spam_systems

I think imposing monetary cost is the wrong approach. But what about a system where verifying your email with a newsletter or mailing list issues their server a unique stamp? Which it can use as proof that you want email from them delivered.

Just thinking out loud here. Anyone have any ideas about implementing this?

#email #AntiSpam #newsletters

I'm very disappointed to discover that a self-hosted Ghost can't actually send out newsletters by email.

It provides all the front-end for accepting subscribers and promising them new posts by email, and it's all turned on by default. But to send those emails, you need a paid account with a proprietary mail missile called MailGun.

EDIT: Not really Team Ghost's fault, see below.

(1/?)

#Ghost #email #newsletters #SelfHosting #MailGun

Techdirt: Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now. “Last week, we got a perfect demonstration of what happens when you build your platform’s reputation around welcoming Nazis: your recommendation algorithms start treating Nazi content as more than worth tolerating, to content worth promoting. As Taylor Lorenz reported on User Mag’s Patreon […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/substacks-algorithm-accidentally-reveals-what-we-already-knew-its-the-nazi-bar-now-techdirt/

Interesting to see two major news outlets — The Verge and Wired — both announce major newsletter strategies nearly simultaneously. I suspect both are motivated by the hope that email will be "stickier" than the (declining) direct traffic to news websites.

"The Verge Launches New Site Features Aimed at Deepening Audience Engagement and Announces New Editorial Newsletters": https://www.theverge.com/press-room/710921/verge-site-features-launch-newsletters

"A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You": https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-era-for-wired-that-starts-with-you/

The Verge cites the desire to "deepen[] its direct relationship with readers". Wired writes "The platforms on which outlets like WIRED used to connect with readers, listeners, and viewers are failing in real time", saying they wish to "connect our humans to all of you humans".

#journalism #newsletters

Interesting to see two major news outlets — The Verge and Wired — both announce major newsletter strategies nearly simultaneously. I suspect both are motivated by the hope that email will be "stickier" than the (declining) direct traffic to news websites.

"The Verge Launches New Site Features Aimed at Deepening Audience Engagement and Announces New Editorial Newsletters": https://www.theverge.com/press-room/710921/verge-site-features-launch-newsletters

"A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You": https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-era-for-wired-that-starts-with-you/

The Verge cites the desire to "deepen[] its direct relationship with readers". Wired writes "The platforms on which outlets like WIRED used to connect with readers, listeners, and viewers are failing in real time", saying they wish to "connect our humans to all of you humans".

#journalism #newsletters

What music blogs and newsletters are you reading at the moment? Or perhaps you have a newsletter that shares news from your music community?

Share it with us and we'll repost as many as we can! 📰🐦‍⬛

#Music#Musodon#Musicians#Newsletters#IndieWeb#MusicCommunity

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