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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
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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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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

What is the use of federating a blog? Just commenting?

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I look at it like this: ActivityPub is to RSS as a GUI is to a CLI.

Meaning, you could already use the tools (RSS or the CLI) that are there to do the task, but someone has created something (protocol, AP or application, GUI) to make that task easier. In the case of RSS and AP, that task is generally getting content in front of the user. With RSS I have to go hunt down RSS feeds and whatnot, but with AP I just interact with stuff and wait for the people I interact with to interact with stuff, and then I get content.

[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I think that's a pretty good analogy in this case

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

People can follow and comment to my WordPress from the fediverse. My posts are long enough that they don't really look right on Mastodon (and images all show up as attachments rather than inline), but nice for shorter format blogs

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm working on adding ActivityPub to my Hugo blog right now. I support RSS, but I figured AP support means that you can get it into your Mastodon feed or even Lemmy feed making it easy to follow. Additionally, commenting (assuming it doesn't get taken over by spammers.)

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

I would love to know how you get on with this.

[–] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 hours ago

Mostly commenting though the Fediverse, yes, but they also develop the possibility to follow other Fedi users and have a timeline when logged in.

I think most current blog commenting systems have some drawback (closed platform like discuss, limited to WordPress, or something that requires email confirmation, captcha or something else) so the ability to comment from another service is a huge factor for me.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 7 points 11 hours ago

And you would be able to see blog posts in a fediverse feed and subscribe to a blog that way.