After months of beta tests, newsletter platform Ghost have are sent A new version of its software, Ghost 6, allowing its publishers to share their long -format content inherently with the wider open social fabric. This means that in addition to publishing their internet newsletters, RSS and e -mail, Ghost users can also connect with services such as the decentralized x competitor Mstodon. Meta’s threads. Flipboard? WordPress sites incorporated into ActivityPub, Surf and Writefreely. And others.
While Ghost also mentions the ability to publish in Bluesky as part of this traffic, this is possible Through an integration with Bridgy Fed, a service that connects the open social fabric known as Fediverse to what is called Atmosphere. The first is powered by an open standard for decentralized social networking called Activitywhile the latter works with the newest In the protocol used by bluesky and other applications.
Madon ReceeThe founder of the publication platform Micro.blog, pointed out the difference between The service and ghostNoting that micro.blog is working to complete the protocol directly, while Ghost uses bridging.
ActivityPub has long been used to activate open, decentralized social media applications. But in the years after the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, there was an increased interest in building this protocol as competitors on Twitter (now called X).
Meta launched the alternative to X in 2023 with Instagram yarns, which have reached X on mobile devices. Meanwhile, the blogging WordPress platform, including the guest version WordPress.com, now offers the opportunity to be integrated into ActivityPub, allowing users to follow WordPress blogs into services such as Mastodon. Other applications have also been incorporated into open social fabric, such as the Flipboard flagship application and the latest surf application and Publishing Platform Medium.
Ghost also offered the possible effects of the connection network with ActivityPub because it allows people in federal applications to follow the positions of a Ghost Publisher, as well as to interact with them with their answer, answer or reset. This may expand the range of publishers and expands their reader.
In addition, Ghost users can keep up with other long -forming content in a “incoming” section of his software, where other articles published in Ghost or WordPress can follow. In addition, from Ghost’s Admin screen, publishers will be able to publish small -form content on Fediverse, allowing them to develop the following and connect with readers.
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Ghost 6 arrives shortly after a shameful incident from its top competitor, the essential newsletter platform, which sent a push alert For users who encourage them to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter. Many authors have already left ustack for his decision to host this content in the past, including Casey Newton of Platformer, a popular technology publication. Other notable ghost editions include 404 media; TwistDavid Sirota’s The lever; MessThe interior of Jason Calacanis, Sfist and others.
While the integration of ActivityPub is a major selling point for Ghost 6, this important version includes a number of other changes and new additions. Particularly, The ghost now carries A native analytics suite that monitors performance, involvement and conversion throughout the web, newsletters and real -time subscriptions.
The software also supports a variety of payment methods, tips and donations, branded newsletters, content that can be personalized to individual readers and much more.
With the release, ghost adapted his pricing for Pro designs (guest). His cheapest plans are now starting at $ 15 and $ 29 a month, from $ 9 and $ 25 per month, respectively. Ghost publishers with a large number of subscribers, however, will now see reduced pricing.
