Building ActivityPub
@index@activitypub.ghost.org  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

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The longformers

We're hard at work preparing ActivityPub for the world as we gear up to launch Ghost 6.0 – so, for the most part, the team is quietly working away here. Crossing our webhooks and dotting our tokens, if you will.

In the meantime, here's a fresh episode of the Dot Social Podcast with Mike from Flipboard, Matthias from WordPress, and John from Ghost – discussing the history and the future of long-form publishing in the fediverse.

If you've been testing out ActivityPub in beta, you will have noticed lots of little updates shipping here and there. We're also saving a couple of things for the big announcement™️.

It won't be long now until everyone can finally enjoy the social web in Ghost. We're both excited and impatient to share it with the world.

Our newsletter updates are going to wind down a little in this final stretch, but we'll keep sharing short-form notes as we get closer to launch.

Talk soon
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"When we first got ActivityPub working in Ghost, sent out the first newsletter that went out directly to the fediverse, likes started coming into Ghost ... The place where you push 'publish', started getting notifications, seeing people are replying, people are liking, people are reposting. And it sounds very contrived, but it was like a lightbulb moment ..."

@johnonolan, 2025

https://flipboard.video/w/g8BgnihyFkMsZ4fwGe3MZn

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#blogging#LongForm#Ghost
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"Oh, Ghost is no longer just this quiet box, where I go and type something and then hope someone read it, and try and figure out by going to all these places if someone read it. Now it feels alive."

@johnonolan, 2025

https://flipboard.video/w/g8BgnihyFkMsZ4fwGe3MZn

I love this description! Totally captures how I felt when I first got on the fediverse, after years of lonely blogging, and started having conversations and making friends (some of whom I've met at virtual conferences or even in person).

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"At the beginning I thought it would be a nice idea to have the different layers ... the complicated stuff like the big firehose as a service, and ... smaller services that connect to that big one, to ... lower the barrier to be part of the network.

But to implement a [PDS] is still so much to do ... it could be even impossible to do that with PHP on a shared hosting environment."

@pfefferle, 2025

https://flipboard.video/w/g8BgnihyFkMsZ4fwGe3MZn

#ATProto#BlueSky#PDS
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large, man, we are spread across Mastodon DMs sometimes, an email thread other times, a Discord backchannel on the other hand, it's all over the place. We could get more organised here I think, but it's a start."

@johnonolan, 2025

flipboard.video/w/g8BgnihyFkMs

The fragmentation of dev discussions is something I hear about a lot lately. Forum federation could be a solution!

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Imagine every federated software project has its own forum space. Smaller projects might be content with a dedicated category on a community-hosted dev forum. More well-resourced projects might host their own instance of Discourse or NodeBB or whatever suits them.

Cross-project forums like SocialHub can then have a dedicated category for each software they know about, and use forum federation to sync that with the home forum space preferred by that project.

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