That's fantastic news! But please, instead of adopting that meaningless corporate Fediverse logo made by Meta use actual community adopted symbol instead.
Yup, totally agree, the Fediverse logo is :Fediverse: and it gets across what this place stands for.
Threads' logo seems to be trying to replace the Fediverse with some kind of centralised concept where Meta is at the centre and everyone else orbits around them.
If you need high quality colour or monochrome versions of the Fedi logo, they're here:
Ghost is a free open source blogging platform. You can host it yourself free of charge, but the developers also offer a paid service for those who don't want to self-host.
With Ghost getting ActivityPub support, it means people on Mastodon etc will be able to follow Ghost-powered blogs.
@FediTips I assume that given enough time to migrate, I hope I click less on links towards substack and click more on links that use Ghosts, but I guess time will tell how the adoption goes, but good luck to Ghosts for sure I hope they can make it.
@FediTips@scottytrees It's about half-way between Substack and WordPress. Like Substack, you can have a paywall and send email newsletters, but on the other hand you can create a custom theme for a Ghost site (unlike Substack). However, it's not a general-purpose CMS like WordPress increasingly is, and there probably won't ever be plugins either. But hey, everyone complains about WordPress's scope creep, so if you want just blogging, Ghost might work for you.
But what does that mean? Obviously, I wouldn't be able to (nor want to) read a blog in my mastodon or threads (which, incidentally is preferably a browser tab instead of a smartphone app anyways)... so - what does activity pub offer other than a means of "oh, a new post, I should open it in my browser and read it" which is just a click away anyways?
At least on WordPress, when the blog publishes an article it appears in your Mastodon etc timeline, and you can comment on it by replying to it directly in the timeline.
I don't know how Ghost is going to do it, but at least on WordPress the owner of the blog has a choice of ways to display the article, either full text, or an excerpt with a link, or just a link. If it's full text, Mastodon hides most of it with a "read more" button to reveal the whole thing.
p.s. There's no limit on how long text can be on Mastodon. The only character limit is for writing your own posts, but displays of posts can be any length. (Though, beyond a certain limit it triggers the "read more" button to keep the timeline readable. But when you click "read more" the entire text is shown within Mastodon itself.)
@FediTips@jwcph@johnonolan Well, my articles have much text, many big photos, sometimes tables etc.... Nothing meant for or good to read inside any social media UI stream anyways.
@FediTips@jwcph@johnonolan I guess then it's nice to have but still not terribly different as linking a new post in the network of choice manually (or even automatically).
What would be nice would be indeed, if conversations originating from such a post/link would be a) centralized and b) linked constantly to the article as a reference. Because I rather have the comments below my articles. So every subsequent reader (also after months) can see those and partake.
For example, if you look at this video on PeerTube, the comments are mostly replies to it on Mastodon, but they are displayed below the video as if they had been posted on PeerTube:
@FediTips@jwcph@johnonolan Ahh, ok... that's nice indeed, then. :)
Wonder whether that's the case for Wordpress, too? And if my wordpress hosted blog could benefit from it... ahhh - need to investigate :)