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22+title: April 16th, 2024
33+date: 2024-04-16, 15:49:17 -07:00
44+section: journal
55+link: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/feedback-on-federating-ghost/
66+tags:
77+ - ActivityPub
88+ - Ghost
99+---
1010+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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33+14Community Search Engines is the label for a set of approaches to interconnect communities.
2536These communities are formed by:
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_notes/Feedback on Federating Ghost.md
···6677## With as much detail as you can give, how would you expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost, if it existed?
8899-Signing up for a Ghost account as a user could also be done by “Logging in with ActivityPub”.
99+Signing up for a Ghost site account as a user could also be done by “Logging in with ActivityPub”.
10101111-So, someone with an existing AP account could login with that account.
1111+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.
12121313-They would still provide their email address, but could
1313+Alternately, existing member accounts can "link to an AP account". This leaves things open for connecting to multiple servers and networks.
14141515-Once someone signed up, they could
1515+### Following Ghost Content
1616+1717+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`.
1818+1919+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.
2020+2121+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.
2222+2323+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.
2424+### Premium Content
2525+2626+Could we get DMs / private mentions of full articles for premium content?
2727+2828+### Threadiverse
2929+3030+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.
16311732## If Ghost had this, what would be the biggest benefit to you, personally?
18333434+I would interact with more Ghost sites in the "comments" if I didn't have to create new accounts all the time!
3535+3636+I already recommend [[Ghost]] and could now consider using it for use cases that look more like community servers use cases.
3737+3838+
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_notes/Note Clips.md
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33+14Notes on making a cross-tool drag and drop capability.
2536What if you could open your [[Digital Garden]] / Second Brain / Spatial Canvas / Notes website in a browser, and open any other web page, and drag and drop content into your own site?
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_notes/Vancouver Hack Day.md
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33+14I’m organizing a couple hack days in Vancouver as part of the [[DWebYVR]] group.
25## What’s a hack day?
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