The team working behind the scenes on ActivityPub at Ghost grew from 3 to 8 in 2025, and now we’re ramping up our work to launch things officially in Ghost 6.0 in the next month.
What is Ghost?
Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I’m saying?
Edit: alright guys, every person doesn’t have to reply saying what it is. I’m not actually interested anymore. My point was to whine about how it wasn’t clear from their home page. 👍 When I realized it was too hard to figure out what this is, I lost interest.
Basically, a blog/website platform, similar to Wordpress, but without the drama.
I’ve gotten lots of responses, but the clear and simple info should be on the site itself rather than here. 👍
It’s a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That’s mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience I subscribed to migrated over when ss went rotten.
Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.
I had looked into it for my running club because it had built in mailing lists through subscribers and such but it def feels like a CMS geared toward a commercial entity. I’m sure it’s great as just a blog setup but it just wasn’t what i was looking for.
It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!
There’s just too much of what we in Sweden would call “word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
“word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
This is a great way to describe LLM-based AIs. I’ma use it.
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Ghost is a CMS. It spits HTML.
Thanks, but the point is that this should be more clearly labeled and explained on Ghost’s website, not by someone in a Lemmy comment. No offense. ❤️
You provide a lot of good constructive criticism, but your delivery could be a little less offensive. You’re right, this Lemmy community isn’t the right place for this. I don’t think the devs are reading this. Maybe rephrase your points a little and post them to the Ghost forum. It’s open source software and can only get better by people contributing to it.
You provide a lot of good constructive criticism
Thanks!
your delivery could be a little less offensive.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, would you mind giving an example of how I was offensive?
You’re right, this Lemmy community isn’t the right place for this.
Right place for what? I’m not sure I made any point that something doesn’t belong here.
I think my whole point was that there’s sooo many posts on Lemmy’s tech communities that are just a title of “Project X version x.y.z released” with a link to the GitHub release page for that version. No context, no description of what the software is. And it gets worse when the actual project site itself doesn’t even explain what the software is or does. It’s frustrating and causes noise in my life where there doesn’t need to be any, I guess.
I think I just came to rant, in all honesty. Probably in poor spirit, admittedly. Sorry for that.
It’s like WordPress, but good.
What’s wrong with wordpress
Besides having an ancient codebase and encouraging poor programming habits, it’s creator abandoned the project for months after an embarrassing public spat with another company. Plus its UX has gotten consistently worse over the last several years. It may have gotten more powerful, but also much less usable.
I remember using it like 15 years ago, and it was pretty shit back then too.
It’s a blogging / newsletter tool. The article I linked to is run on Ghost. So this is what it looks like.
Then it should say that clearly somewhere on the site. 🤷♂️
OP linked to an entry in their newsletter. If you check out their site, they are being pretty clear that they’re in the business of “Independent technology for modern publishing”, stating in pretty big letters that “Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.”.
Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.
Independent technology for modern publishing
This says nothing. “Technology”? Come on. Be specific.
Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
This is better, but give me screenshots, give me a way to get a feel for what it can do. I still didn’t find that after rummaging through several pages.
Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.
I clicked away from the newsletter first thing, to start exploring from their front page, which was just a wall of text that said very little concrete shit and showed next to nothing. Other pages were nothing more.
It looks like a WordPress competitor. I didn’t check what it’s written in.
At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
What are you on about? It’s open source, you can self host.
They have a Wikipedia article, so you can read more about them there. It’s blogging software
I shouldn’t have to find their Wikipedia page if I’m already on their website bruh. 🙈
Thats a very poor description imo
What is?
I think this is going to be pretty huge.
I ended up subscribing to @feed@404media.co (404 Media) after following them on Mastodon. It just feels like a more direct way of following media that fits with how I consume stuff online these days.
Speaking of the 'don, it’s not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it’s really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it’s growing on me.
