When new services join the #SocialWeb, it works best if there's an associated default app. Everything shares the #ActivityPub protocol but an app can be designed to best deal with a certain type of content. I use #Pocket by @mozilla right now for articles, but it's not federated. I wonder if @omnivore can't be the default app for our AP enabled #WordPress#Ghost and #Buttondown future.
"#Ghost is also making #ActivityPub a first-class citizen in the subscription flow. When clicking on the Subscribe button on a Ghost #newsletter, you will now be able to subscribe through email or through ActivityPub. This is exciting for several reasons, one being the fact that your email inbox no longer has to be inundated with content that you eventually want to discuss on #socialmedia anyway."
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#Ghost implementing #ActivityPub is huge for the concept of #AttentionDemocracy. Their articles will be native to the #SocialWeb. The boosts, likes and comments will be on a writer's work (and often their own website/domain), not on separate posts that reference the piece locked up in a variety of corporate platforms. Making it much simpler for the great stuff to go viral, unlike with RSS or email. This functionality is our killer app here. It will make so much more innovation possible too.
So, with #Ghost also adding #activitypub I was wondering if there's a way to distinguish each service within the protocol. So say you follow 50 people in 20 different services, all activitypub. Now you basically have a huge list of content with basically no grouping, filtering or anything. Isn't that just a huge mess? Can clients recognize what the content is and how to display it in a sane way? Split by service type or something?
The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.
I'm excited about this #Ghost news. My only question is regarding this dashboard they're expanding. They say you'll be able to follow other Ghost blogs in a unified dashboard in your own Ghost blog, which is awesome.
What about people who don't have a Ghost blog themselves, but want to follow Ghost blogs in this same way?
Will they be told to sign up for a free (centralized) ghost.org account? Will they be told to sign up for something else entirely, like Mastodon?
Encouraging news that #Ghost is going to federate via #ActivityPub. Let's just hope they don't screw it up like WordPress did with theirs since this has lots of potential. https://activitypub.ghost.org/
YAY! Ghost is adding ActivityPub support! > In 2024, Ghost is adopting ActivityPub and connecting with other federated platforms across the web. https://activitypub.ghost.org/
Only now realizing there's and open source alternative Ghost that's like Substack. And there's some talk about Ghost joining ActivityPub. I think if it happens it will be nice, even if I was not even know it existed up until today.
Ghost is an excellent platform for publishing. I used it a lot a few years back for publishing articles when it was headless - that was optimum. Compose at your leisure within your own local environment, then push it up to your own self-hosted instance.
Unfortunately, they let it fall into disrepair, left it unmaintained, and last I checked the Ghost desktop was nowhere to be found in the repo. One of the maintainers explained to me that they just didn't have anyone willing to maintain the app and so I migrated away from the platform myself.
I'm going to give it another looksee to review what happened to the elegant, #headless nature that Ghost used to espouse as one of it's key ingredients for using it in the first place. I just hope that they don't try to go the way of #OOo, #Bacula, and other #FOSS projects that were forked, and somewhat marginalized, as a result of decisions to force community versions into #Freemium products that lacked most functionality without fee based subscriptions. Lord knows, the last time I checked their managed hosting solutions for Ghost it certainly wasn't even competitively priced.
With this newfound revelation in the form of some kind of epiphany, let's hope their commitment to #Fediverse and FOSS exceeds that of their grasp for excessive monetization.
Ghost is considering joining the Fediverse! That's right. The nonprofit company is contemplating federating Ghost over ActivityPub. Here's Ghost's survey asking users about their usage of ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon and how they expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost (many of my followers here will have better insight into this than myself, so please do submit your feedback; it's a very short form and the impact could be great!): https://tally.so/r/m67X4P#Ghost#ActivityPub#Fediverse