Fedi.Tips3d ago

There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.

Lots more info about Ghost in the guide at:

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

Would also highly recommend the article by @molly0xfff which outlines the advantages of Ghost over Substack:

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

#FediTips #Ghost #Substack #Alternatives

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Show threadhexaheximal3d ago
@FediTips Ghost is now slopware. I wouldn't recommend it.
Show threadStrypey2d ago

@hexaheximal
> Ghost is now slopware

Why do you say that? After shifting the Disintermedia blog to community-hosted Ghost I have a few grizzles, but overall I'm finding it a great improvement on the bloat of SS.

My grizzles with Ghost;

* hardcoded dependence on;

1) commercial email sender

2) one payments processor

* AP module has to be set up separately (how about a single Docker image that deploys both as an option?)

* no footnotes

#newsletters #Ghost

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Show threadhexaheximal2d ago
@strypey @johnonolan @FediTips Actively built with LLMs, see https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/main/AGENTS.md
Ghost/AGENTS.md at main · TryGhost/Ghost

Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters. - TryGhost/Ghost

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Show threadStrypey2d ago

@hexaheximal
> [Ghost now] Actively built with LLMs

Jesus wept.

Added to the fediverse.party watchlist of apps doing that;

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/watchlist+-+fediverse+apps+created+using+auto-generated+code.-

Please let us know if you learn of any others. For now there's a moratorium on listing any app on the site if the developers merge auto-generated code.

We hadn't got around to listing Ghost, for a few reasons (backlog, and the headscratcher of AP support being a tack-on module), so we won't for now.

#MOLE #AI #VideCoding

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Show threadxrvs
@strypey @hexaheximal @johnonolan @FediTips would you count wordpress as fediverse software? it has agents.md, has copilot PRs, and also this thing
gutenberg/AGENTS.md at trunk · WordPress/gutenberg

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Show threadStrypey52m ago

@xarvos
> would you count wordpress as fediverse software?

Kind of? We do list their AP plug-in on the dev tools page.

> it has agents.md, has copilot PRs

Jesus wept, another one? Do you know if the AP plugin is itself vibe coded? I guess @pfefferle would be the person to ask about this : D

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Show threadMatthias Pfefferle2m ago

@strypey @xarvos @hexaheximal @FediTips only because there is a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md it does not mean a project is vibe coded.

The ActivityPub plugin has also several agents/skills that ensure code quality, run phpcs or phpunit before code is commited and help with security audits!