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title: April 16th, 2024
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date: 2024-04-16, 15:49:17 -07:00
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section: journal
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link: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/feedback-on-federating-ghost/
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tags:
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- ActivityPub
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- Ghost
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I wrote up my notes on what I submitted to the Ghost survey: [[Feedback on Federating Ghost]]. I truly believe that any app that cares about user interaction should look to federate beyond a single install.
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## With as much detail as you can give, how would you expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost, if it existed?
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Signing up for a Ghost account as a user could also be done by “Logging in with ActivityPub”.
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Signing up for a Ghost site account as a user could also be done by “Logging in with ActivityPub”.
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So, someone with an existing AP account could login with that account.
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So, someone with an existing AP account could login with that account. This would create a local account, where you "auth" with your remote account.
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They would still provide their email address, but could
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Alternately, existing member accounts can "link to an AP account". This leaves things open for connecting to multiple servers and networks.
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Once someone signed up, they could
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### Following Ghost Content
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From a user perspective, there should be a "main" Ghost account to follow, `@name@website.com`. The publisher should be able to choose tags to expose like `@tag@website.com`.
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Replying to a posted article would appear as a comment on the article. If someone doesn't have a linked Ghost account, the publisher could choose whether or not to show it.
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Optional: if a person without a linked Ghost account replies with their AP account, send a DM that says "thanks for your comment! if you link your AP account, we'll publish your reply as a comment". There are a bunch of paths here for onboarding as well as moderation.
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Favorites and Boosts could also flow back, a bit like Web Mentions. This would be stored in the Ghost database, and could be used to sort or otherwise display content.
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### Premium Content
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Could we get DMs / private mentions of full articles for premium content?
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### Threadiverse
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The [[Threadiverse]] is the name for Reddit-style top posts plus comments. This seems to fit the article-or-newsletter-plus-comments that Ghost specializes in. Following this pattern would be better than thinking of Ghost as microblogging.
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## If Ghost had this, what would be the biggest benefit to you, personally?
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I would interact with more Ghost sites in the "comments" if I didn't have to create new accounts all the time!
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I already recommend [[Ghost]] and could now consider using it for use cases that look more like community servers use cases.
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