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
John O’Nolan, founder of Ghost, makes a post asking for feedback on federating Ghost with ActivityPub. Please share what you write in the survey! #ActivityPub#Ghosthttps://tally.so/r/m67X4P
Est-ce que Ghost, l’alternative open source à la plateforme de newsletter de Substack, est sur le point de révolutionner notre façon de concevoir le réseau social en rejoignant le fediverse? Cette interrogation survient alors que John O’Nolan, fondateur de Ghost, réfléchit à fédérer son système sur ActivityPub, le protocole de réseau social qui alimente le fediverse. Qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour l’avenir de l’interconnectivité sociale?
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