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       title: April 16th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-04-16, 15:49:17 -07:00

     

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       section: journal

     

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       link: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/feedback-on-federating-ghost/

     

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         - ActivityPub

     

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         - Ghost

     

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       I wrote up my notes on what I submitted to the Ghost survey: [[Feedback on Federating Ghost]]. I truly believe that any app that cares about user interaction should look to federate beyond a single install.

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       ## With as much detail as you can give, how would you expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost, if it existed?

     

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       Signing up for a Ghost account as a user could also be done by “Logging in with ActivityPub”. 

     

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       Signing up for a Ghost site account as a user could also be done by “Logging in with ActivityPub”. 

     

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       So, someone with an existing AP account could login with that account. 

     

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       So, someone with an existing AP account could login with that account. This would create a local account, where you "auth" with your remote account.

     

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       Alternately, existing member accounts can "link to an AP account". This leaves things open for connecting to multiple servers and networks.

     

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       ### Following Ghost Content

     

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       From a user perspective, there should be a "main" Ghost account to follow, `@name@website.com`. The publisher should be able to choose tags to expose like `@tag@website.com`.

     

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       Replying to a posted article would appear as a comment on the article. If someone doesn't have a linked Ghost account, the publisher could choose whether or not to show it.

     

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       Optional: if a person without a linked Ghost account replies with their AP account, send a DM that says "thanks for your comment! if you link your AP account, we'll publish your reply as a comment". There are a bunch of paths here for onboarding as well as moderation.

     

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       Favorites and Boosts could also flow back, a bit like Web Mentions. This would be stored in the Ghost database, and could be used to sort or otherwise display content.

     

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       ### Premium Content

     

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       Could we get DMs / private mentions of full articles for premium content?

     

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       ### Threadiverse

     

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       The [[Threadiverse]] is the name for Reddit-style top posts plus comments. This seems to fit the article-or-newsletter-plus-comments that Ghost specializes in. Following this pattern would be better than thinking of Ghost as microblogging.

     

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       ## If Ghost had this, what would be the biggest benefit to you, personally?

     

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       I would interact with more Ghost sites in the "comments" if I didn't have to create new accounts all the time!

     

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       I already recommend [[Ghost]] and could now consider using it for use cases that look more like community servers use cases.

     

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