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Ghost is open source, independent, and funded 100% by its users.
Nice. I was looking for an alternative to Substack (not very hard obvs) and this might do it.
Would it now then be possible to subscribe to a Ghost blog from here, or would some additional integration need to be made?
Curious if there’s an example of a Ghost blog interacting with the wider fediverse.
I am a bit ootl, can someone explain like I'm five what that means exactly?
Ghost is a lot like substack, but instead of, say, someone like Ken Klippenstein owning their own domain name and redirecting it to substack content, Ken Klippenstein could have his own domain and host his own substack-like-Ghost on that domain. Because it's federated, it could directly interact with other Ghost instances potentially as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, and so forth.
(I think it's a little silly that one of their example images shows it federating with Bluesky when Bluesky has its own proprietary protocol.)
It's because like all the rest of the federated web, it uses ActivityPub, and thus can interface with other services using ActivityPub. The instance and usernaming scheme works very similarly as here on Lemmy, actually, based on their documentation.
I do think it's a little sad that it's only available to people on the Pro tier, which means you have to pay for access to this feature currently through paying for hosting directly from Ghost themselves. While Ghost does need a pathway to self-sufficiency, hopefully this will be removed in the future, because it is a bit antithetical to actually hosting your own instance, by forcing you to use their hosting services.
Thank you for the explanation...and the activitypub protocol would be used so that users can comment and subscribe to content using their - say - mastodon account?
That is indeed the case. I'm not sure how well it works on day one but it is in principle doable and making micro blogs news aggregators and blogs work well together is something we can and should work on
Yes, that is indeed the goal, it seems!
thanks <3
Is Ghost pro open source?
Ghost itself is Open Source, but the Ghost Pro tier is actually about purchasing web hosting from Ghost, the company.
So you're not paying access to the open source license, it's just that they're restricting you to using their own hosting services instead of deciding which hosting service you want or even self-hosting in your own environment.
Hopefully this changes with time.