Fedi.TipsFeb 9

Substack hosts swastika-laden Nazi accounts promoting white supremacism (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters). If you're currently using Substack, you might want to switch to a more ethical alternative like Ghost.

Ghost is a Fediverse-compatible blog and newsletter platform, it runs on free open software and you can host it yourself or use a paid hosting service. More info:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/ghost-blogs-and-newsletters-on-the-fediverse

The journalist @molly0xfff wrote on moving from Substack to Ghost:

➡️ https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost

#Substack

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian
Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Feb 9

@molly0xfff @FediTips

Use Ghost is the new 'install linux'. I have yet to find a well written guide to setting up a ghost install.

Show threadFedi.TipsFeb 9

@faduda

If you don't want to do any techy stuff, you can use a managed hosting service, I link to them in the guide:

Cloud68
https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting/ghost

Ghost.org
https://ghost.org

It is really easy to use managed hosting, you don't need to install anything.

There are also official instructions for a manual self-hosted install:
https://docs.ghost.org/install

Ghost

Independent, professional open source publishing.

Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Feb 9

@FediTips

But I want to host my own ghost install. I just want to do it without learning a foreign language.

Show threadFedi.TipsFeb 9

@faduda

Which language do you want the instructions to be in?

Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️Feb 9
@FediTips
Plain English.
Show threadNick (Alatar the Blue)Feb 9

@faduda

The ghost documentation is some of the clearest technical documentation I’ve seen in my 25 years of managing IT “things.” That said - it’s technical documentation, and absolutely assumes that you have technical knowledge.

If it’s above someone’s current technical abilities to run and install something, that’s not a bad thing - but it does leave you with (roughly) two options:

  • Acquire technical knowledge. There are loads of people in the world that will happily help interested parties do this, assuming the interested parties are willing to learn and not just “do it for me.”
  • Pay a trusted service for their knowledge (hosting). There are loads of options there, from various cloud providers to paying an individual to host and manage on your owned hardware; each comes with varying degrees of cost vs. liability, but in all cases you’re paying for someone else’s time (both directly spent to manage your service and historically to learn how to do so).

    • I absolutely agree that, “just install ghost” has become the new, “just install Linux.”

    @FediTips

    Show threadGerard Cunningham ✒️

    @FediTips @alatartheblue

    Like I said, it's the Linux problem. Docs isn't ux

    Feb 9 at 8:03pmWeb