Ghost

Ghost

Maker

📌

Hey hunters! We're starting out down a brand new road today, excited to share our plans for bringing ActivityPub to Ghost with you - and hanging out in the comments to answer any questions that come up. We've been thinking and working on how to create a decentralised network in one form or another for about 8 years (before ActivityPub was a thing) — and I'm excited that we're now finally getting started with it.

1yr ago

Ghost

Maker

@kasuncfdo thanks so much!

1yr ago

Chris Messina

Ambassador

Launching soon!

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?

1yr ago

Ghost

Maker

@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.

1yr ago

levelsio

eu/acc: European Accelerationism

Wow great work, do you think payments will start to also go this way with Ghost in the future? As ActivityPub is decentralized, maybe having some decentralized type payments fit into the future

1yr ago

Ghost

Maker

@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

1yr ago

Todd Garland

HackToStart

@levelsio @johnonolan i am here for this