StrypeyMar 21, 2025

Thanks for indirectly introducing me to #ButtonDown @WeirdWriter. For those who (like me) aren't familiar with it, it's an email newsletter engine, akin to Ghost, who I see are also working on ActivityPub integration. So we'll be able to follow ButtonDown newsletters with our fediverse accounts, and comment on posts;

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137296/ghost-newsletter-activitypub-fediverse-support

See also;

https://web.archive.org/web/20250123194019/https://github.com/buttondown/roadmap/issues/2267

#fediverse #ActivityPub

Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’

Ghost is adopting the ActivtyPub standard as the fediverse gains more and more momentum

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"That’s the fun part about the fediverse — it’s a lot of old ideas about the web being open and interoperable, but there’s still a lot of new things yet to be invented on top of that foundation. At this point I’m not sure any social platform that launches without an eye towards federation stands a chance, really."

#NilayPatel, April 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137296/ghost-newsletter-activitypub-fediverse-support

#web #federation

Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’

Ghost is adopting the ActivtyPub standard as the fediverse gains more and more momentum

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While networked social media like the fediverse and Nostr continue to grow in leaps and bounds, new Walled Garden startups set up as Titter alternatives are not surviving;

RIP CoHost;
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/cohost-the-x-rival-founded-with-an-anti-big-tech-manifesto-is-running-out-of-money-and-will-shut-down/

RIP post.news;

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

RIP Artifact;

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036539/artifact-shutting-down-kevin-systrom

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/

All died in 2024, and Pebble/ T2 didn't even last that long;

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/

Cohost, the X rival founded with an anti-Big Tech manifesto, is running out of money and will shut down | TechCrunch

Cohost, a would-be X rival launched to the public in June 2022, is shutting down, the company announced via the social network's staff account earlier

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