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Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’

Interoperable social media is having a real moment

That’s a big shot of support for the fediverse — the network of open and interoperable social services that have all been gaining momentum over the past year. Email, the web’s original open protocol, is used by more people than any platform or social network that has been invented before or since; because it shares users rather than competing for them. This has long been the dream, and it seems like the platforms betting on it in various ways — Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Flipboard, and others — are where all the energy is, while attempts to rebuild closed systems keep hitting the rocks.

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