Ghost blog adding activitypub

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

This looks a lot like Writefreely.

[andypiper@lemmy.world]

yes, although they are not all available yet. Here is the link to the videos from the room that hosted the Social Web track. https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud2208/

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

Mostly commenting though the Fediverse, yes, but they also develop the possibility to follow other Fedi users and have a timeline when logged in.

I think most current blog commenting systems have some drawback (closed platform like discuss, limited to WordPress, or something that requires email confirmation, captcha or something else) so the ability to comment from another service is a huge factor for me.

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

I never tried writefreely, but I was under the impression that it's really focused on, well, writing. Maybe it's not used that much, but I would like to have the ability to easily upload pictures and include them in the articles with some formatting options etc.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Is this a valid WordPress replacement?

[chaospatterns@lemmy.world]

I'm working on adding ActivityPub to my Hugo blog right now. I support RSS, but I figured AP support means that you can get it into your Mastodon feed or even Lemmy feed making it easy to follow. Additionally, commenting (assuming it doesn't get taken over by spammers.)

[asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world]

What's insecure about them?

[asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world]

You can do that but only under paid accounts.

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

I tried a random Writefreely instance and it was extremely barebones and had poor markdown styling. It gave me the impression that Writefreely is more for publishing short stories, rather than technical content.

(Is that the point of Writefreely?)

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

The people who make writefreely are saying that they are working on making image uploads possible for self-hosted instances, not just their own at write.as. Currently if you are self-hosting you can insert an image but it must be hosted elsewhere and inserted via a markdown link.

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

I would love to know how you get on with this.

[dantheclamman@lemmy.world]

People can follow and comment to my WordPress from the fediverse. My posts are long enough that they don't really look right on Mastodon (and images all show up as attachments rather than inline), but nice for shorter format blogs

[justanotherkay@lemmy.world]

I look at it like this: ActivityPub is to RSS as a GUI is to a CLI.

Meaning, you could already use the tools (RSS or the CLI) that are there to do the task, but someone has created something (protocol, AP or application, GUI) to make that task easier. In the case of RSS and AP, that task is generally getting content in front of the user. With RSS I have to go hunt down RSS feeds and whatnot, but with AP I just interact with stuff and wait for the people I interact with to interact with stuff, and then I get content.

[boramalper@lemmy.world]

Perfect thank you!

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Npm package manager is vulnerable to mitm attacks. The packages aren't signed like, for example, apt does

[silentknightowl@slrpnk.net]

I think that's a pretty good analogy in this case

[mat@linux.community]

You can't self-host Ghost? I'd like to stay on the same domain indeed, not wanting to also mess up folks subscribed to RSS.

[noahimesaka1873@lemmy.funami.tech]

You can selfhost Ghost, but hosting different APub service with same domain messes up federation.

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

Exactly, you could probably forward your RSS feed to the old domain but that would get a little hacky.