Plus, WordPress is open source (a philosophy the org supports), isn’t inherently insecure (the main thing that will make it insecure is a shady plugin, so don’t install random plugins that look weird), and really shouldn’t be that expensive to operate with a CDN in front of it. You can totally do newsletters with WordPress too. The only benefit Substack really has is that it gives you everything out of the box. Which is an amazing benefit. But you can accomplish every listed goal there with WordPress!
aside: am a WP core contributor, so I may be biased :p
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Plus, WordPress is open source (a philosophy the org supports), isn’t inherently insecure (the main thing that will make it insecure is a shady plugin, so don’t install random plugins that look weird), and really shouldn’t be that expensive to operate with a CDN in front of it. You can totally do newsletters with WordPress too. The only benefit Substack really has is that it gives you everything out of the box. Which is an amazing benefit. But you can accomplish every listed goal there with WordPress!
aside: am a WP core contributor, so I may be biased :p