Substack open source rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse

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• jackalope@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good, though more of a WordPress alternative. I’d like to see actual substack alternative in the fediverse, with the ability for users to pay authors for their work, via subscription, as substack does.

  I know people are worried about monetization in the fediverse but authors need payment for their work. Subscriptions don’t have the same perverse incentives as advertising.

  Flipboard ceo has mentioned he is supportive of the idea.

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  • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’ve described Ghost. Subscriptions for content are a first class citizen.

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    • jackalope@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Subscriptions work with fediverse content though?

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Isn’t ghost more of a Wordpress alternative?

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  • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No it’s primary a writing platform with built-in monetization options and the ability to self host. We switched to it from Substack. It’s been fantastic to use and operate. Super slick.

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ghost is almost perfect, but their decision to go with MySQL really sucks

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• dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Doesn’t seem to be in the latest open source release or at least I can’t find how to enable it.

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s just their way of restricting the beta, but I really hope they’re not moving towards an enshittified open-source business model, “we’re still technically open source if you use the *retch* community version… but it’s out of date, difficult to use, broken, has no useful features, and we’re only adding new stuff to the paid version, so just pay us already.”

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    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Worth remembering that the benefits of open source are less critical with server-side software compared to when it’s your own personal computer. Personally, if it’s SAAS then I’m not much bothered what they’re running it on. Not to invalidate your general point.

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They had a fairly detailed blog post a few days or weeks ago about the rollout. The plan is to bring it to open source but they’re still working on issues with it that are easier to control on their own servers. IIRC the code for it is actually in the open source version but disabled. I think they said if you know what you’re doing you could go into the code to enable it but it’s unusably slow right now, or something like that.

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• yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  semi open source. i dont have pro.

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