Interview with John O’Nolan about Ghost 6
We were excited to see the recent release of Ghost 6 with ActivityPub features. The Ghost team have been an active participant in our Long-form Text project. John O'Nolan, founder and CEO of Ghost.org, was kind enough to answer our questions about the software and its community. SWF: For our readers who don't know Ghost, how would you describe the platform? JO: Ghost is an independent publishing platform for people who take writing seriously. We're open source, non-profit, and built to give […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/10/interview-with-john-onolan-about-ghost-6/
Keynote Address at Wordcamp Canada 2025
I'm proud to say that I (Evan) will be a keynote speaker at WordCamp Canada 2025. My talk, Beyond Microblogging: WordPress Leads the Way With Long-form Text on the Social Web will cover the work that the SWF has done on long-form text with our supporters WordPress, Ghost, Write.as, and others. I'm excited to have the discussion and point the way forward for a more integrated experience of blog posts, newspaper and magazine articles, and other texts on the social web. WordCamp Canada has a […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/05/keynote-address-at-wordcamp-canada-2025/
"One of the big pain points has been how subscribers to #longformtext from platforms like WordPress, WriteFreely, Plume and Ghost.org see the text in their microblogging platforms like Mastodon or Threads. Often, the data is abbreviated or misformatted. #FEPb2b8 is, in part, a way to improve and standardize this problem.
The participants in the project are aiming to have better standards support from both #publishers and consumers over the next few months."
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/01/steps-forward-in-long-form-text/