Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse | TechCrunch
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Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run
  • jackalope@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Good, though more of a WordPress alternative. I’d like to see actual substack alternative in the fediverse, with the ability for users to pay authors for their work, via subscription, as substack does.

    I know people are worried about monetization in the fediverse but authors need payment for their work. Subscriptions don’t have the same perverse incentives as advertising.

    Flipboard ceo has mentioned he is supportive of the idea.

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          The docs are super unclear, and written for those not familiar with ActivityPub.

          In future, we hope to develop a deeper integration between your social web profile and followers <> and your public website and registered members. To start with, though, they operate independently from one another.

          Your social web profile and followers are separate to the rest of your site and memberships, so you can think of it as a new, additional distribution channel.

          Emphasis mine. I think the setup is basically federating links in Mastodon style. So if you have a post available as a subscription, it will prompt a login after clicking through.