Why I prefer reading #GhostBlog blogs to #Medium and am looking forward to their #ActivityPub networking. I'm not sure if Medium authors remember this is the first impression that many of their blogs will see-- a good part of the page covered with a popover.
"WebFinger is the protocol which allows different ActivityPub implementers to find information about Actors, it's could be thought of as the entrypoint. Given a username like @user, we can look up the URL for the Actor at
Backstory - based on a post by @molly0xfff , I was intrigued by the idea of Ghost - and leaving Substack. I read the Platformer newsletter last week about all the controversy and will bail out of there shortly.
I started out creating a site over at Ghost.io, but I like self-hosting my stuff, so on a cold wintry day, I went down the rabbit hole.
I'm a huge fan of RunCloud for my server management, and so I followed this handy guide.
I'll use it as another path to post my Daily Inspiration post, which I have been writing every morning since early August 2016 (when some personal circumstances drove me to a life of clarity.) My next one goes out ... tomorrow morning.
If you could help me stress test my setup by signing up, that would help me out. You might like my posts too. You can leave at any time.
If you want to send out both through Mailgun, you can send the transactional emails out through the Mailgun SMTP interface.
You can send (only) transaction emails out through SES also via SMTP.
The Ghost project is open supporting other providers for bulk email, but first an "adapter" needs to be created that abstracts the details for each provider.