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• maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That definitely sounds interesting (I’ve heard some are moving to Ghost, and from their page it definitely looks interesting).

  The issue though is money. The fediverse doesn’t do money, transactions and subscriptions, and so Ghost would have a hard time seeing value in federating as they wouldn’t, AFAIU, be able to federate a subscription system over the protocol and so wouldn’t be able to integrate with the userbase already here.

  And this is one of the problems the fedi has. It’s kinda on the roadmap for the development of the protocol, but probably a long way off. And even if it were in the protocol, it wouldn’t work until other platforms added the features for a subscription system and successfully developed working federation of it, which in the case of, say, Mastodon and Lemmy, would only serve to benefit some other platform like Ghost rather than themselves.

  So unless Ghost develop the necessary parts for the fediverse … I’d be doubtful something like that is happening any time soon.

  Otherwise, more abstractly, if I’m onto something with this take, I believe it’s a good example of how the fediverse’s dependence on monolithic platforms rather than a more modular ecosystem of composable apps that all operate directly on data shared over the protocol may actually start hurting the attractiveness of the ecosystem.

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