Bugs, breakthroughs and BlueSky. #fediverse #ghost
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@craignicol Know what you mean - and I moved from #Mozilla to #Vivaldi for just this reason.
Hate to see the crazy turmoil happening at Automattic, hope they reorient, but if not, there are plenty of CMS's and #Ghost@ghost is building out its ActivtyPub features in a very promising way.
What a week!
I discovered the FediForum unconference on Mastodon and spent the next three days learning about ActivityPub, web fingers and hooks, and the history and politics of federated social media from some of the originators. I’ll have to level up my technical skills, again. I spent a few hours finding, learning about, and following folks across Mastodon instances and then closing scores of tabs.
#FediForum#Reflection#Ghost#Fediverse
@Flipboard I discovered that #Flipboard can not follow #WordPress blogs in the #Fediverse.
I tried following several of mine & it did not work, then I tried to follow @pfefferle@mastodon.social blog (which is @pfefferle@notiz.blog) from the Flipboard app & it also did not work.
I encountered the same error when trying to follow #Ghost (on @index) & #MicroBlog (using @manton) too.
#WriteFreely works though! 😀😅 (thanks @matt‽).
Screenshot of me error when I try to follow Manton Reece, founder of Micro.blog from Flipboard.
Screenshot of the error I receive when trying to follow the first Ghost blog in the Fediverse (they are still working on properly activating ActivityPub, so I was not surprised it did not work).
Screenshot errror when trying to follow Matthias Pfefferle’s (creator of the WordPress ActivityPub plugin) WordPress blog from within Flipboard.
Screenshot of error when trying to follow my WordPress blog from within Flipboard.
Interesting #ActivityPub implementation roadmap by the #Ghost team: instead of implementing the standard, and then optimizing interop of their implementation with other implementors like Mastodon, they start with making it work with other implementations and then come back to the standard.
https://activitypub.ghost.org/mapping-out-activitypub-support/
Great update from @index
“Now that we've got many of the foundations in place, we're going to shape our roadmap from here around building compatibility for #Ghost with 3rd party services…First up: We're going to focus on getting Ghost to work (well!) with #Mastodon .”
https://activitypub.ghost.org/mapping-out-activitypub-support/
The #Ghost people are doing excellent #ActivityPub marketing with their weekly newsletters, such as today’s. I don’t agree with some of the details of their points of view, but that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, they are doing a great service educating potential users beyond the niche of today’s typical Mastodon users. Recommended.
And you can get the newsletter by following @index
https://activitypub.ghost.org/its-all-about-the-infrastructure/