Ghost blog adding activitypub

[andypiper@lemmy.world]

There was a good talk about this at FOSDEM at the weekend!

[mat@linux.community]

Awesome! Once this is out, I think I will migrate my blog from WriteFreely to Ghost. I hope I can reduce disruption for existing followers though...

[flamingos@feddit.uk]

I've seen it mostly touted as an alternative to Substack.

[markstos@lemmy.world]

Wordpress has become an all-purpose CMS known security vulnerabilities via unsafe plugins.

Ghost has APIs instead of plugins for nearly everything, so it eliminated a lot of security and maintenance headache that way.

Ghost focuses on just a few features centered around independent content creators: blogging, email newsletters and subscriptions.

So features for sending bulk emails and accepting payments are built in, but you won’t find native support for other things like podcasts or recipe markup.

Ghost meets my need, and I love not dealing with 30 plugins at risk of being exploited if I don’t upgrade them promptly.

[boramalper@lemmy.world]

Were FOSDEM talks recorded?

[tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net]

I think there's no way to remain at the same domain with a different Fedi service unfortunately

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

What is the use of federating a blog? Just commenting?

[churbleyimyam@lemm.ee]

And you would be able to see blog posts in a fediverse feed and subscribe to a blog that way.

[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