One thing to address is that if you're sending lots of emails you start to raise concerns about being a spammer. Especially if somebody forgets they signed up for your newsletter and clicks "report as spam". It can be a quick way to get blocked from your mail provider since they can themselves become blocked and they'd rather ban you than deal with that hassle. Just be sure whoever you're sending mail through is okay with you sending "bulk" mail.

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?

Amazon SES is dirt cheap, billed per-send, you just need to bring the Everything Else with something like Mailcoach or Sendy.

Ghost has a lot of these features as well as being a blog and handling paid subscriptions and donations.

Oh my god.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knadh/listmonk/master/

We absolutely need to stop this. Sure, I saw the disclaimer, but we need to end the normalization of running ANY black-box crap off the net. "curl|sh" needs to be laughed into exile for all our safety.

The easiest thing needs to be the right thing -- common security saying

Then it's

vim

As if that's actually user-friendly or a positive experience instead of the worst thing to ever survive from the last century, crawling along on its rotting flesh and drooling on the pavement like some toxic residue from the vietnam war that it is.

In what asylum do you have the people willing to suffer vi and who also need a curl|sh ? Are they lazy or just misled as noobs into thinking vi is the only editor out the--

You guys, I just realized how vi masochists actually reproduce. It's like zombies, guys, eating brains until the victim raises up another zombie.

And that curl|sh -- does it invite supply-chain exploits? Ohhh, you bet it does! Best black-box script ever! Use this as a test for your security people -- if they gauge this as a threat from within another threat, they pass. But, honestly, had it not been for the horrible spelling, I wouldn't have thought to check further. \shrug. Mineshafts and canaries I guess.