Jonah Aragon Sep 27, 2025

idk if any mutuals have/want a newsletter and want to switch to Ghost, but I will literally help you migrate to Ghost from your static site, Substack, whatever for free; just because I think Ghost and its recommendation network and its ActivityPub features are all so awesome 🙏

I *really* want to get the network effect going with an open-source platform and leave Substack in the dust. So yeah hmu lol

Show threadYaakovOct 1
@jonah hey, do you have any good links or references for getting AP set up? I’ve tried both self hosted and their server and neither seem to actually work properly
Show threadJonah Aragon 
@yaakov what’s the issue you’re seeing? I use self-hosted on one blog and theirs on another without trouble.
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Show threadYaakovOct 1
@jonah the page in the admin panel stopped working so I tried turning it off and back on, and the last I tried I got stuck here: https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub/issues/1281
HTTP 500 with no further details · Issue #1281 · TryGhost/ActivityPub

I'm running both ghost:6-alpine and activitypub:1.1.0 in podman and have nginx terminating both. I have the reverse proxy configured as per ghost 6 release notes. When I enable ActivityPub under Se...

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Show threadJonah Aragon Oct 1
@yaakov is your admin panel on a different subdomain? And you are on 6.0.3 or higher? Because that version fixed an AP bug in the initial release. Feels like an nginx issue so maybe posting your config could help... I use Caddy though which works perfectly.