Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:
"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."
I already don't like Substack and massively prefer reading things on the writer's own website, and this kind of manipulation to keep people there just confirms my dislike
There's a BookFunnel cozy mystery newsletter drive, and Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I. is on it too. Lovely mysteries for a price of a newsletter signup. It lasts only until May 30th, so act fast.
I've updated my newsletter! Wherein I informed my subscribers very late about my TCAF digital booth oops, but I also went into a bit more detail about each of the new comics I have for sale!
Just wrote my next "letter from the director" to come out in June. This one is about how this gardening project had me thinking about salmon, trains, justice & Joanna Macy's Great Turning. If that sounds interesting there's time to sign up to receive...https://www.multisolving.org/#newsletter
Blog Update: I have successfully migrated email sending away from ButtonDown Email to a self-hosted Ghost instance. Nothing bad with ButtonDown - simply, Ghost has by far a better editing and publishing experience (and can be self-hosted, of course).
Speaking of newsletters, one reason to migrate was because I want to explore email communication a bit further. So, if newsletters are your thing, be my guest and add your email here: https://preslav.me/subscribe/#via-email I won't spam!
None of that would have been so easy, if it wasn for @andrasbacsai and his monstrous work on Coolify! If you have a spare server and want to turn it into a self-hosted #PaaS without #Kubernetes and all the jazz, Coolify is absolutely the best!
And yes, #WoodMeadows are my new jam. I’ll be writing more about them as a model for human activity creating biodiversity, in a democratic and engaging way. I am, to put it mildly, quite excited.