A newsletter hosted on your own domain becomes a blog. The best of both worlds. Please host newsletters on your own domain.
@cdevroe it's so weird that "newsletters" are the hot thing right now but they're functionally just hosted blogs with a list of subscribers?
@tedmielczarek Sending attractive email messages to large groups of addresses is still difficult. Which is why @buttondown et al exists. The value, unlike a typical blog, is that the publisher has direct access to the reader and - presumably - a direct line to their inbox which may _never_ change.
I love newsletters in that I like regularly published content on a schedule that feels as though it is written for a specific readership. But I prefer RSS as the delivery mechanism personally.
@cdevroe @tedmielczarek agreed on both parts! philosophically, I think the "email" part of newsletters is in many ways an implementation detail: it just so happens to be the dominant mode of subscribing to a given work that we have.