Substack Rival Ghost Joins the Fediverse with ActivityPub Integration
Ghost now supports ActivityPub, letting publishers share content across the fediverse, including Mastodon.
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Substack Rival Ghost Joins the Fediverse with ActivityPub Integration
Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Flipboard, and others, allowing posts published on one app to be seen and engaged with by those on other federated platforms. Image:Google Ghost said last year that it was working on an integration with ActivityPub, which would allow its publishers to share their blog posts with the broader open social web. The company expected the integrations to go live last year. However, Ghost this week announced the launch of its social web beta, which now allows any site running on its Ghost Pro subscription to try out the new ActivityPub integration. The beta feature is still in active development, the company notes in its help documentation, but is expected to ship in a more finalized state in the Ghost 6.0 release. When Ghost Pro users connect their blog or newslett…
