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Ghost blog adding activitypub (activitypub.ghost.org)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Not sure if this has already been posted since it's kind of old news (early 2024), but I think that's exciting. I'm currently looking into blog software with nice webgui and I might wait for this to become real. Looking at the announcement page, they seem to take it seriously and there's continuous merged PRs since April until recently regarding AP on their GitHub.

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[–] markstos@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Wordpress has become an all-purpose CMS known security vulnerabilities via unsafe plugins.

Ghost has APIs instead of plugins for nearly everything, so it eliminated a lot of security and maintenance headache that way.

Ghost focuses on just a few features centered around independent content creators: blogging, email newsletters and subscriptions.

So features for sending bulk emails and accepting payments are built in, but you won’t find native support for other things like podcasts or recipe markup.

Ghost meets my need, and I love not dealing with 30 plugins at risk of being exploited if I don’t upgrade them promptly.