Mastodawn

I'm interested in starting an occasional e-mail #newsletter to keep in touch with people who like my #TTRPG books. I'd like to avoid #proprietary solutions like #MailChimp.

Does anyone have experience running an #opensource #selfhosted #mailinglist manager they would like to share? What would you recommend?

(I am experienced in #Linux and I already have a self-hosted VM).

#askfedi #foss #freesoftware

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staxl Jan 13

@strangequark I'm pretty happy with listmonk. Great alternative to Mailchimp I think. Especially since you have your own server already. Lacks a lot of Mailchimp's features for sure, but I think most of those are aimed towards businesses anyway. So for private newsletter managing I definitely recommend it.

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Strange Quark Jan 13

@staxl Yes I went ahead and installed listmonk. It was pretty easy to set up.

The time-consuming bits were the DNS/web server/SSL certificate configuration and CSS theming to make it look like the rest of my website.

Website is https://strangequark.eu (on Github Pages) and Listmonk is on https://listmonk.strangequark.eu (self-hosted) but I managed to get it to look fairly seamless.

Now all I need is some subscribers :)

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Strange Quark is the repository for the creative projects of Michael C. Davis, including role-playing game supplements for OSR RPGs such as Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC RPG), Castles & Crusades and other D&D retroclones.

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@staxl I also put a Listmonk subscription form on the sidebar of my posts: https://www.strangequark.eu/rpg/return-of-the-ripper/

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