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Not sure if this has already been posted since it’s kind of old news (early 2024), but I think that’s exciting. I’m currently looking into blog software with nice webgui and I might wait for this to become real. Looking at the announcement page, they seem to take it seriously and there’s continuous merged PRs since April until recently regarding AP on their GitHub.
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Is this a valid WordPress replacement?
Edit: nope, its closed source
Edit2: oh, it is open source. But the install instructions are glaringly insecure
What’s insecure about them?
This looks a lot like Writefreely.
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?)
Yes.
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.
You can do that but only under paid accounts.
What is the use of federating a blog? Just commenting?
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.)
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.
And you would be able to see blog posts in a fediverse feed and subscribe to a blog that way.
Just curious but is Ghost like an alternative to Wordpress or Squarespace?
It’s a blogging platform. So similar to WordPress. Although it looks a lot nicer.
The really cool thing is that it has support for payments in the Self-hosted version, which I’ve not personally seen before.
gotcha thanks!
The really cool thing is that it has support for payments in the Self-hosted version, which I’ve not personally seen before.
huh that’s actually pretty neat!
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.
It’s simpler/more lightweight than WordPress, but generally yes (don’t know squarespace)
I’ve seen it mostly touted as an alternative to Substack.
I’ve been following their work on implementing this via their newsletter and it seems to be coming along nicely. Can’t wait for them to complete implementing it.
There was a good talk about this at FOSDEM at the weekend!
Were FOSDEM talks recorded?
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/
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…
I think there’s no way to remain at the same domain with a different Fedi service unfortunately :/
To be honest it’s amazing to see this sort of thing. I’m really waiting for Ghost to become a lot more accessible to the Fediverse as I love writing my little Articles but it seems to not be worth it as much if users can’t interact and talk on the page as easily.
Hopefully they open it up to lots more users and articles in the future.
