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Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024


Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack's newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse -- or the open social network

Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, more recently, Instagram Threads, among others. Founder John O’Nolan had explained in a post on Threads that there are many potential ways that Ghost could leverage federation in its software, but wanted to know how users would expect things to work. Ghost’s announcement last week set off a flurry of activity, including outreach from Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput who offered to help out with the ActivityPub integration.

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