Ghost blog adding activitypub
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I think that's a pretty good analogy in this case
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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.
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You can selfhost Ghost, but hosting different APub service with same domain messes up federation.
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Exactly, you could probably forward your RSS feed to the old domain but that would get a little hacky.
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Here is the Ghost talk from FOSDEM 2025 https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud2208/fosdem-2025-4673-networked-journalism-bringing-long-form-publishing-to-the-fediverse.av1.webm
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Honest question as I finally dusted back off my interest in RSS. With RSS I need to add the URL to my client and it periodically checks back to show me when new content is posted, does ActivityPub handle this differently? Like how does it know which sources to use without having to hunt down their AP feed and add it to a client?
I could totally be missing something super simple or implied.
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For whatever reason I'm struggling to remember how to properly explain the difference between push/pull protocols, but AP only moves data at a users request.
This means that if I follow you on Mastodon, and you comment on a post by some other third party which I have no interaction with, it's going to bring that comment to me and bring along any other related data. In this case, that means the post you commented on and all of the other comments and data related to that post.
This cycle works constantly, so I get content from the other side of the world because I (in reality, my instance, not me in particular) interacts with a chain of instances to keep data flowing
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Thanks for the explaination!
That definitely sounds like it could be a nice upgrade depending on well it could be filtered (I could see that spidering out pretty quickly if the things you follow interact a lot). Definitely something I'll have to check out sometime, thanks again.
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Well, you're here on Lemmy using the ActivityPub protocol. How's the experience been? Does the filtering fit your needs?
I realize you might be talking about the server side rather than for users, ie if you were gonna set up your own instance. In which case, what you're referring to is called "federation/defederation." My understanding is that you just have to go flip a switch on your backend to filter out a whole instance, a person, a community etc and nobody on your instance will see it anymore.
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I signed up for early access, but tbh based on the signup page it's hard to have a lot of confidence in anyone who thinks really light gray text on a white background is a sensible idea.
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Federated as opposed using a Wordpress hosting service etc that can be turned off by someone's business decision.
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Agreed, but given ghost has theming, I'm not too concerned about that.
I also signed up, but I'm not sure if it applies to selfhosting.
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Somewhat, but I'm thinking of the future of federation as sort of a torrenty information mesh network of peers with no actual hosting "service".
