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Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch
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Still seems pretty uncertain. I saw a chat between ghost CEO and some activity pub dev trying to convince him to federate … this was around the time of Newtons move off of substack … and the vibe was about the same then … “cool idea, unsure about viability, how would it work?”
Seems it’s such a common almost meme-ish user demand now that the request hasn’t let up. Given that Wordpress has done it I’d guess the idea is probably a no-brainer … just do it!
Problem though is the kinda-literal elephant in the room … mastodon. The only fediverse platform mentioned in the article. Federating with it requires implementing a “user” actor where everything is organised around users like on microblogging platforms. It’s what Wordpress did and what Ghost will too.
Which is a shame because us group based platforms get left behind, mastodon controls the fediverse, and the utility of grouping things, which makes a lot of sense for things like multi-author blogs, gets forgotten.
I wonder if there is cludgy workaround to make groups just another user for the rest of the fediverse
AFAIU, that's how lemmy federates content to mastodon.
If you didn't know, you can follow lemmy communities (and other groups) on mastodon, but the appear as users constantly "boosting" everything that happens in the community and so can quickly clog up your feed.
Mastodon now has exclusive lists though, which take everything that appears in the list out of your home feed, which is a nice way of managing it.
In fact, for a community I moderate, I've got a mastodon list just for that community, which gives me a reverse chronological feed of everything that happens in the community ... which is actually useful and not quite available from the interface (as you posts and comments have to be viewed separately, which isn't bad really).