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Ghost ActivityPub — Federating to join the world's largest publishing network
Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to allow publishers to follow, like, and reply to one another across the entire open web.
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Top Hunter
So stoked to see this!
Substack makes a big deal about how you can export your subscribers and content but increasingly the value is in social recommendation systems, distribution, and interactions. And lo, Substack is becoming a social network in its own right, having merely used email to bootstrap yet another private network.
We've seen Post News and T2/Pebble fail, meanwhile Threads has embraced federation through ActivityPub and is contributing to the future of the social web.
With Ghost adopting ActivityPub, publishers can take not only their subscribers elsewhere, but can interop with rest of the open social web, of which Mastodon is but one subset.
Will @ProductHunt be next?
@producthunt @chrismessina Lots of platforms pretend to be open in order to get signups, then slowly start introducing features that are proprietary and prevent people from leaving - which was the plan all along!
The way we approach builading things at Ghost has always been to quite simply do what we say we're going to do. No ulterior motive. No a16z in the background pulling strings for a higher valuation. No bullshit.
This is so interesting, I think Ghost is the best platform to sit at the forefront of a truly open web movement. We've seen so many different platforms do a half-baked job of it.
Nice one to you and the team @johnonolan!
@marcperel Thanks Marc! Gonna give it our best shot. I agree, half-assed doesn't work for something like this. Need to whole-ass it
I've been using Ghost in Japanese ever since backing it on Kickstarter. I thought the news about introducing ActivityPub was very good. I support the attempt to expand communication on the network.
So excited for this. I love Ghost and host MarketingJunto.com there. It's such a great platform which will only benefit from Federation!
Congratulations on the launch, Ghost team! Bringing ActivityPub to Ghost is a game-changer for publishers looking to connect and collaborate across the open web. The idea of a decentralized network is truly exciting. Can you share more about the benefits this federated approach brings to publishers and readers alike?
@levelsio yeah! I think crypto is actually starting to get interesting for the first time now, because most people are no longer interested in it. Generally that signals the end of the hype phase and the beginning of practical utility - so I’m very interested in exploring how decentralised payments could work in Ghost in the future. There are all kinds of legitimate and interesting usecases which Stripe (mostly Visa/Mastercard) refuse to support
It's a timely move @johnonolan! I hope you will be good at syndication of the comments and dialogues to replace the post comments. Count me in as an early adopter!
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