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user can espouse the newssheet through their favour federated app at @index@activitypub.ghost.org , though the company warns there will be bugs and take as it continues to make on the weapons platform ’s integrating withActivityPub , the communications protocol that power Mastodon and other federated apps .
“ Having multiple Ghost instances in production successfully running ActivityPub is a Brobdingnagian milestone for us because it means that for the first time , we ’re interact with the wider fediverse . Not just theoretical local implementations and tests , but the material mankind wide-cut social web , ” the company shared in its announcement of the news .
In addition , Ghost ’s ActivityPub GitHub depository is now amply undetermined origin . That mean those concerned in tracking Ghost ’s progress toward federation can postdate its code changes in real fourth dimension , and anyone else can learn from , modify , distribute or contribute to its body of work . developer who require to collaborate with Ghost are also being invited to get need following this move .
The company had earlier detailed the welfare of an ActivityPub integration as an choice to closed in platforms , like Substack and others .
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ActivityPub integration is becoming more plebeian in the media commercial enterprise , as writers and publishing firm grapple with reduced traffic from sources like Google and Facebook while AI technology summarizes their study , either through paidcontentdealsorplagiarism . Several sites , admit The Verge , MacRumors and MacStories ( and shortly TechCrunch ) recently adopted anew lineament that will add their reporters ’ bylines to newsworthiness articleswhen they appear in the fediverse , for instance .
Ghost itself has alsoattractedseveral high - visibility users to its platform , often because Substack ’s slack relief insurance policy meant it wasincreasingly becoming a home for hatred words . Casey Newton , formerly of The Verge , left Substackthis year due to temperance business andmigratedto Ghost instead . Another newssheet , Garbage Day , also leftSubstack . Other popular Ghost - powered publishers let in 404 Media , Buffer , Kickstarter , David Sirota ’s The Lever and Tangle , to name a few .
