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.
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’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.
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.
