The team working behind the scenes on ActivityPub at Ghost grew from 3 to 8 in 2025, and now we’re ramping up our work to launch things officially in Ghost 6.0 in the next month.
What is Ghost?
Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I’m saying?
Edit: alright guys, every person doesn’t have to reply saying what it is. I’m not actually interested anymore. My point was to whine about how it wasn’t clear from their home page. 👍 When I realized it was too hard to figure out what this is, I lost interest.
Basically, a blog/website platform, similar to Wordpress, but without the drama.
I’ve gotten lots of responses, but the clear and simple info should be on the site itself rather than here. 👍
It’s a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That’s mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience I subscribed to migrated over when ss went rotten.
Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.
I had looked into it for my running club because it had built in mailing lists through subscribers and such but it def feels like a CMS geared toward a commercial entity. I’m sure it’s great as just a blog setup but it just wasn’t what i was looking for.
It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, what is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!
There’s just too much of what we in Sweden would call “word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
“word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
This is a great way to describe LLM-based AIs. I’ma use it.
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Ghost is a CMS. It spits HTML.
Thanks, but the point is that this should be more clearly labeled and explained on Ghost’s website, not by someone in a Lemmy comment. No offense. ❤️
You provide a lot of good constructive criticism, but your delivery could be a little less offensive. You’re right, this Lemmy community isn’t the right place for this. I don’t think the devs are reading this. Maybe rephrase your points a little and post them to the Ghost forum. It’s open source software and can only get better by people contributing to it.
You provide a lot of good constructive criticism
Thanks!
your delivery could be a little less offensive.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, would you mind giving an example of how I was offensive?
You’re right, this Lemmy community isn’t the right place for this.
Right place for what? I’m not sure I made any point that something doesn’t belong here.
I think my whole point was that there’s sooo many posts on Lemmy’s tech communities that are just a title of “Project X version x.y.z released” with a link to the GitHub release page for that version. No context, no description of what the software is. And it gets worse when the actual project site itself doesn’t even explain what the software is or does. It’s frustrating and causes noise in my life where there doesn’t need to be any, I guess.
I think I just came to rant, in all honesty. Probably in poor spirit, admittedly. Sorry for that.
It’s like WordPress, but good.
It’s a blogging / newsletter tool. The article I linked to is run on Ghost. So this is what it looks like.
Then it should say that clearly somewhere on the site. 🤷♂️
Thats a very poor description imo
What is?
