molly0xfff,
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

So excited to hear that the Ghost blogging software is going to support federation via ActivityPub! https://activitypub.ghost.org/

If you sign up for updates, they have a survey where they're asking for feedback. Now's your chance to get your suggestions in!

molly0xfff,
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

Cool to see Ghost taking this step, while Substack is over there trying to build walls around their product to trap people in (eg https://www.thewrap.com/substack-follow-feature-problems-subscriptions-down/)

molly0xfff,
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

Ghost's post is also how I learned that Buttondown is working on ActivityPub support! 🙌 Exciting times.

wraptile,
@wraptile@fosstodon.org avatar

@molly0xfff if only Ghost wasn't so terrible 🙄

We've been using for years now and I have very few good things to say about it to put it mildly.

viq,
@viq@hackerspace.pl avatar

@wraptile
Oh? How is it terrible? Honest question out of curiosity, one of those decades I'll finally set up a blog, and I was eyeing Ghost for that.

wraptile,
@wraptile@fosstodon.org avatar

@viq it's really broken. Loads of bugs, poor performance from rendering to SEO integrations, lack of basic features like post filtering or change revision. The infrastructure is a mess too - awful templating for custom themes, weird object distinction between "pages" and "posts" with different routing that override each other. I could go on and on but there no value it adds over static blog generators.

Just get static site generator desktop app and post for free on netlify :)

molly0xfff,
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

@wraptile @viq it has its flaws, and i would probably go for a static site if i was just using it for blogging without newsletter functionality. but if you want to send emails or have subscriptions, it works pretty well

tehabe,
@tehabe@norden.social avatar

@molly0xfff when I read your newsletter with an RSS reader they display your icon next to the audio player above the player and very big.

molly0xfff,
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

@tehabe thanks, it's on the to-do to fix but will take some wrangling

mvilain,
@mvilain@sfba.social avatar

@molly0xfff I haven't parsed how to use Ghost like I would patreon or substack. I subscribe to ghost newsletters but there doesn't seem to be a way to login to ghost without being creator and paying a fee. I want to use the ghost login like my Patreon page and my old substack page where I can subscribe and unsubscribe newsletters. I don't see a way to do that. Have I misunderstood their model? I subscribe to your newsletter and platformer as discreet content rather than under a centralized Ghost account.

molly0xfff,
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

@mvilain no, you've got it right. it's not a centralized service like substack or patreon; you sign up per-newsletter.

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