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I never got the hype of Substack. I use Ghost for a while now and it's fantastic. The fact that it's open-source, self-hostable, super customizable (themes), h

• freddie_mercury 2y ago
  Substack is free to start. You only start paying once you have paying subscribers. Ghost is $9/month to start, even if only your mom is reading it to start. (And you don't get customisable themes at that tier.) Not hard to see why one is much more popular than the other.
  • smatija 2y ago
    Well Ghost is free if you self-host - but I agree that while hosting it is simple, it is still a barrier to entry.
    • freddie_mercury 2y ago
      Self hosting isn't free. It costs money to run a server.
      • hu3 2y ago
        GitHub pages is free.
• mimon 2y ago
  As we saw recently with Mastodon, for a very large section of users, views on "open-source, self-hostable and super customizable" will range from "don't care" at best to "that's too much hassle, pass" at worst. People just want to write their article and have it come up at the top of Google search results, that's the hype.
• sevagh 2y ago
  Ghost does not have a free membership option on their website: https://ghost.org/pricing/ https://ghost.org/pricing/