Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

This post by @Bonfire really piqued my curiosity:
https://bonfire.cafe/post/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 (via @deadsuperhero)

Especially:

"One feed, many content types.
Adding articles marks a small but significant step towards realising the vision of the open social web: a digital space where you can receive, read and interact with diverse content types from a single place, rather than juggling multiple platforms, accounts, and notification streams."

Sounds AMAZING!

#Bonfireheart_fire
Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@laurenshof absolutely!

These days I'm experimenting with federated Wordpress posts, the Friends plugin and Enable Mastodon Apps for Wordpress. It's very cool and promising: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

As soon as Ghost allows self-hosted blogs to federate I will do that.

So hopefully one day I can compare & contrast experiences between WP, Ghost and Bonfire 🤗

@Bonfire@deadsuperhero
Sean Tilley
@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org  ·  activity timestamp last week
@_elena @laurenshof @Bonfire Yeah, I’ve been tinkering with different systems for years. Both Ghost and WordPress get extremely close to what I want, but there’s a series of drawbacks with both…

Ghost is really, really good, but you get maybe a fraction of the features you might expect with Mastodon. WordPress is very flexible, but the various ActivityPub / MastoAPI plugins can become very difficult to debug over time, and I’ve had a number of performance problems that are difficult to diagnose.

I’m watching Bonfire with cautious optimism, and hope to talk to the devs about what a Bonfire-powered publishing system would look like.