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For years, I've been using a free Mailchimp account to send out my monthly newsletter. However, they're now forcing a paid option on me, and after a few technical issues with another platform I've decided to switch to LinkedIn's free newsletter option instead.

It was never meant to be a money-spinner anyway, so why not?

Feel free to subscribe here: linkedin.com/build-relation/ne

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Hey, folks! I’m looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join my team (API Core) at #Mailchimp.

Some of the things we work on: #PHP, #REST, #OpenAPI, #OAuth2, #APIGovernance, and more.

We are stewards of our public #APIs, and we collaborate with other capabilities teams to ensure APIs are developed according to our standards and processes. You would work directly with me on a daily basis.

This position is in Atlanta or New York.

jobs.intuit.com/job/atlanta/st

Software Engineering Careers at IntuitStaff Software Engineer (API Core Team)Learn more about applying for Staff Software Engineer (API Core Team) at Intuit

One of the most fundamental things I am supposed to do for my business is simply send out an email once a month to people who signed up to the newsletter.

And I fail at this almost every month.

I just hit send on my Mailchimp today however, and called it "Doing The Hard Things" :)

For me, the newsletter really is the hard thing.

It's shades of whatever now in my brain. I look up #mailchimp and it was acquired by Intuit and I look up my usual "who owns...." and "controversy..." and I see stuff I don't like, as in FTC finds....
BUT compared to you know.... it pales....

Anyone know if there's a way to get MailChimp to stop hijacking any links sent through it via Facebook redirects?
(And no, I'm not interested in hearing about the mailing list provider I ought to be switching to instead; MailChimp is what @concordnhdems are stuck with, so I'd rather just get that to work the way I want, instead of getting bogged down in any sort of migration process)
#mailchimp

I'm so angry with MailChimp. I hate them generally and resent the (tiny) part of my job that needs to use it... but they've just managed to screw up my audience, and now I can't use the damn thing at all with the email addresses I have. Fuck you.
Any suggestions for a decent alternative that will enable me to create a mail template, ideally on a free account?

With #mailchimp being awful about unions, I'm interested in ditching them for a new service. I have a single list of ~100 subscribers and I need to be able to support segmenting that list, merge tags for custom subscriber data, and RSS-to-email campaigns. Anyone have a recommended service they like?

Here's the thing – I'm a writer

I produce text from my brain. I care about having people read what I write

I came up in the blog era and so basically I want to publish my own content online at my own pace, following my own interests

Unfortunately, I can't seem to convert my writing into popularity or charisma. My interests are too niche and I always go way too deep on things

I just lack the ability to galvanise and enthuse other people

and also I'm not hot, so I have no personal mystique (and tbh I strongly feel I should not be forced to trade on personal appeal), and hence I don't do well in the Creator Economy

Nonetheless, I think I'm a great writer

Every year around about this time I vow that I'm going to find some way to make money from my writing, considering how the bottom has completely fallen out of journalism

A few years ago I set up a #Patreon but the thought of having to grind nonstop to satisfy my patrons was exhausting to me

I also made a #Medium publication that I've actually got Rotten Tomatoes to accredit, but it pissed me off that they enshittified the Medium app so it was no longer a CMS and was now just a passive reading app

it really disincentivised me from writing on Medium

also, what's the point of publishing on Medium if they gatekeep people from even seeing my stuff unless they pay?

I also switched my old #MailChimp newsletter over to #Substack and I was reasonably happy with it… until the whole "platforming Nazis" business

So where do I go now?

I'm so sick of being at the mercy of platform capitalism that I think I'm going to sign up to and pay for #Ghost simply because it's an open-source nonprofit

I like the way it will allow me to pull in and consolidate my previous failed experiments with using other platforms for professional publishing, because it does both 'blogging' and newsletters

and I am NOT a marketer who primarily wants to "grow" and "monetise" via subscriptions –

So I don't think #Beehiiv is for me because it's so focused on snowballing readers into customers

Ghost feels like a good compromise between Substack and #WordPress (which I still loyally use for my other business website, even though paradoxically it's getting clunkier and more infuriating as it tries to make its UX simpler and easier)

Anyway, if you're reading this you'll realise that I truly do think things through via writing

what can I say? I'm a fucken writer

Over the last year https://HoneytreeTech has created easy and simple scripts to install, configure and secure hard to manage #FOSS apps like: #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube, #Superdesk, #Postal, and others.

The last installer for 2023 will be listmonk.app.

#Listmonk is a #OpenSource alternative to email marketing and newsletter platforms like #mailchimp and #ActiveCampaign

You can check out the and get the auto-installer scripts on our GitHub: github.com/orgs/Honeytree-Tech

listmonk.applistmonk - Free and open source self-hosted newsletter, mailing list manager, and transactional mailsSend e-mail campaigns and transactional e-mails. High performance and features packed into one app.
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@raph oh wow jeez 😳 😬 "#Mailchimp reached out to Pineapple Street Studios about making a new show. Pineapple and Mailchimp first collaborated in 2019, producing narrative ads for Mailchimp and branded series. Pineapple Street staff were shocked when management at parent company #Audacy informed them in October that the new Mailchimp contract required all work on the series to be performed by non-#union workers."