Open Source Alternatives to Substack

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Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Substack give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 1 open source alternative to Substack. The most popular is Ghost. It uses the MIT license and ships an official Docker image.