1mo ago

Ghost 6.0 releases next month with ActivityPub support

activitypub.ghost.org /ramping-up-for-expansion/

The team working behind the scenes on ActivityPub at Ghost grew from 3 to 8 in 2025, and now we're ramping up our work to launch things officially in Ghost 6.0 in the next month.

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What is Ghost?
Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I'm saying?
Edit: alright guys, every person doesn't have to reply saying what it is. I'm not actually interested anymore. My point was to whine about how it wasn't clear from their home page. 👍 When I realized it was too hard to figure out what this is, I lost interest.
- Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
  For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.
  
  It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, what is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!
  There's just too much of what we in Sweden would call "word shitting". Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
  
  I had looked into it for my running club because it had built in mailing lists through subscribers and such but it def feels like a CMS geared toward a commercial entity. I'm sure it's great as just a blog setup but it just wasn't what i was looking for.
- It's a blogging / newsletter tool. The article I linked to is run on Ghost. So this is what it looks like.
  
  Then it should say that clearly somewhere on the site. 🤷‍♂️
- It looks like a WordPress competitor. I didn't check what it's written in.
  
  At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
  https://lemmy.ml/post/31091334/19015547
- It’s like WordPress, but good.
  
  What's wrong with wordpress
- Basically, a blog/website platform, similar to Wordpress, but without the drama.
  
  I've gotten lots of responses, but the clear and simple info should be on the site itself rather than here. 👍
- Thats a very poor description imo
  
  What is?
- It's a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That's mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience I subscribed to migrated over when ss went rotten.
I think this is going to be pretty huge.
I ended up subscribing to @feed@404media.co (404 Media) after following them on Mastodon. It just feels like a more direct way of following media that fits with how I consume stuff online these days.
- Speaking of the 'don, it's not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it's really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it's growing on me.

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