okay, powered through and wrote up a li'l thing about my new #faircamp site, cult of lightbulbs
this was a fun little experiment and may be overkill for quite a lot of folks, but proved to me that it's possible to DIY your own music store / patreon-style offering for very little $ and some light command-line knowledge
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"A cool thing is that this is quite affordable — about $92/year. It would be almost free if I wasn’t paying Buttondown to handle the email-newsletter part (there are open-source alternatives here that I haven’t looked into yet)."
@kidlightbulbs, 2025
https://bgreen.lol/i-built-my-own-diy-patreon
After setting up a Ghost instance last year for Disintermedia.net.nz, I learned that the bottleneck you're paying to get through here is the spamcatchers at the major email hosts.
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Only a handful of (mostly commercial) services are trusted to send email newsletters. Because they involve sending large volumes of identical email, which to a large email host is indistinguishable from spam.
Ghost.org has a B2B partnership with one of those trusted bulk mailers (MailGun I think), and self-hosted Ghost requires paying for an account on one of these services to send published articles to subscribers.
