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		jrott on Aug 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The time it takes to run a paid newsletter Most people don’t want to run there own infrastructure. Also many newsletters are written by people that aren’t technical so self hosting is for a really limited audience.

pier25 on Aug 27, 2020 [–]

> so self hosting is for a really limited audience

I agree with your general point (in fact I'm building something for that reason) but millions of WP installs don't count as a limited audience IMO.

jrott on Aug 28, 2020 | [–]

That’s a really good counter argument.

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