Full disclosure: I’m a paying customer of Ghost and have spoken to @johnonolan directly multiple times - he and his non-profit fully share our vision of the open independent web and I genuinely think we should be welcoming them to the #Fediverse with open arms 🤗
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?
"#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."
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 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
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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/
#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.
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?
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.
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/