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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 6 months 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 replied · 6 months ago

"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".

@index, July 2025

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-longformers/

Is it weird that I'm excited about this too?

#Ghost #fediverse

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months 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 replied · 6 months 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

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months 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 replied · 6 months 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

https://flipboard.video/w/g8BgnihyFkMsZ4fwGe3MZn

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

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#ForumFederation

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months 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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