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John O'Nolan
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Another year, and several milestones all at once.
12 years since Ghost launched on Kickstarter, now at $8M ARR, and powering almost $100M in revenue for independent publishers 📈
A few reflections on building an open source publishing platform, for a long time:
Vibe coding a React Native framework that can turn any Ghost publication into a native mobile app
Super fun
Now in beta – increase your reach by connecting your Ghost website to the fediverse 🌏
Discover and follow your favorite people and publications across Ghost, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard, WordPress, and more – all in one place.
The open web is getting social.
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
@julian @pfefferle @evanprodromou Fixed that permissions bug so if you sign into the longformers Ghost instance I sent you an invite to - you should now be able to access and test the ActivityPub area properly!
Serious question how do I make fediverse chick leave me alone
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Did a fun lil episode on The Business of Open Source recently, talking about building an OSS company designed around long-term sustainability.
Will be chatting more about this at Open Source Founders Summit in Paris, in May! (Link in the shownotes)
On my way to Brussels for #FOSSDEM - I’ll be speaking (about ActivityPub, Ghost, and the fediverse) on Saturday evening in the Social Web track.
Hope to see you there if you’re attending 🤗
Open source software on Kickstarter is my jam.
Ghost.org was born on Kickstarter, and now thrilled to be able to sponsor the amazing ActivityPub-driven @pixelfed on our collective quest to bring back the open web.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
I tried that "Roast me and don't hold back" ChatGPT prompt 2 weeks ago and it was so harrowing that I'm still thinking about it to this day
Late to the party on this server but Mastodon 4.3 feels like a huge upgrade. Great work @Gargron and team 🙌
Go to:
Settings → Search Engine → Manage search engines and site search → Site search → Add new
Enter details from the screenshot below. Then you can type chatgpt.com + [tab] to start a new ChatGPT Search
Figured out how to make a search shortcut for the new ChatGPT Search feature in Arc / Chrome 👇
So you keep whatever default search engine you prefer, but have ChatGPT search only a [tab] away:
Too late, Home Assistant already has built-in Gemini
I've had a lot of questions over the last few weeks about how Ghost is going to avoid ending up in the same situation as WordPress.
A lot of trust in open source has been broken.
So, I spent some time writing up how we structure and think about business, governance, open source, community, and ecosystems more broadly.
I certainly don't think we've got it all figured out — but I think our model is especially relevant at this particular moment in time.