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Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’
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Yea the paid subscription question is the big one here. Ghost’s announcement stated that they think it will be easy to integrate that with ActivityPub, which I’d interesting because no one has done it while I think there’s been a good amount of demand for some sort of solution. If ghost sort that out for the ecosystem it could unlock the fediverse for some other platforms. Nebula comes to mind especially.
I ran across this exchange with Ghost CEO John O'Nolan on the Product Hunt announcement:
Levelsio:
John O'Nolan replied:
Oooh. Crypto and fediverse … The odd couple!
I suspect it’s more complex than that. If they want any fediverse account to be able to subscribe, which they do, then how do they distribute content only to subscribers and not everyone on their instance?
Yea, that's the most straightforward for sure ... but requires leaving the fediverse. I suspect that there are plans/dreams of being fediverse "native" and enabling the full content/publication to be read from ones fediverse account.