Recent searches
Search options
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!
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/)
Ghost's post is also how I learned that Buttondown is working on ActivityPub support! 
Exciting times.
@molly0xfff, I've solely recently (finally) started using Substack because I can finally follow people, rather than use their weird subscription system. There's damn good reason that so many people are choosing to follow instead.
@molly0xfff Ghost is an intriguing piece of software. But... I think @matt has converted me. I love how simple his interface is. It's all the best things about Medium's philosophy of "just write" but also still open source. More services on the fediverse is a good thing, but Ghost should know that they already have competition.
@berkough So glad you like Write.as / #WriteFreely!
I've actually talked to @johnonolan and the folks at #Ghost before, when they helped us integrate cross-posting.
I'm pretty excited for the social reader they announced, as it should mean *all* long-form content in the fediverse will get really interesting. I reached out to them this week about working together -- think we see it as more about collaboration than competition :)
@matt @berkough @molly0xfff totally!! Same with @buttondown - Justin is a great friend and we share ideas all the time. I’ll get back to your email soon :) just on the road atm
@johnonolan @berkough @molly0xfff @buttondown all good! Look forward to chatting
@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.
@mvilain no, you've got it right. it's not a centralized service like substack or patreon; you sign up per-newsletter.
@molly0xfff Thanks. You're the 1st person I've asked a question to who hasn't grumped at me with "don't @ me".
Keep writing and doing your podcast. Lots of work but it's worth it. If you want a voodoo doll of Sam Bankman Freid and pins, let me know. I'll convert one of my Mitch McConnell doll for you.
@mvilain @molly0xfff Wait, you have multiple Mitch McConnell voodoo dolls?
@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.
@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.
@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 #publii static site generator desktop app and post for free on netlify :)
@wraptile
Thank you.
@molly0xfff @viq I did hear that their newsletter functionality is actually good and that would explain where all of the dev resources went. We never got about exploring it as we want to migrate from Ghost eventually because of the said issues with the CMS itself.