manton
manton
Ghost fediverse pricing manton.org
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timapple
timapple

@manton I don't know why they just didn't set up commenting to link to a fediverse instance of the users choice along with sharing their posts. Then no overhead for them except the code itself to implement it.

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pfefferle@mastodon.social
pfefferle@mastodon.social

@manton 🤔

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thisismissem@hachyderm.io
thisismissem@hachyderm.io

@manton my curiosity here is "how can we make AP less resource intensive?”

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prealpinux
prealpinux

@manton disappointing... 🤨

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js@podcastindex.social
js@podcastindex.social

@pfefferle @manton

seems to be similar to the way most hosted mastodon services charge as well, although those are entire "instances", where ghost is splitting that up among each customer, depending on the interaction count

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laurenshof@indieweb.social
laurenshof@indieweb.social

@pfefferle @manton well good news for you Matthias haha. I was open to considering ghost for Fediverse report, but pricing per follower makes this extremely expensive and a complete non starter for me, so I’ll happily stay with Wordpress

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adders
adders

@manton It’s probably worth remembering that this is ghost(pro) pricing — you can also self-host Ghost, and there are plenty of other hosters out there, too, who might take a different pricing approach. And they have made it clear that ActivityPub support is coming to the self-hosted version.

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pratik
pratik

@manton I think this is more of an ActivityPub design problem than a Ghost pricing issue.

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manton
manton

@thisismissem Totally worth exploring. I've always thought of ActivityPub as "chatty" but I've never spent enough time to really measure it.

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pfefferle@mastodon.social
pfefferle@mastodon.social

@laurenshof @manton and that is good news? only because of the money?

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_elena@mastodon.social
_elena@mastodon.social

@laurenshof @pfefferle @manton ouf I also got scared when I read the latest blog post. I wonder if federation will be an optional thing…

I am on a Ghost(Pro) Creator account for its newsletter capabilities and I have a federated Wordpress blog that costs me $0 … I’d lean into that (the latter) if costs on Ghost soar rapidly

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SteveSawczyn
SteveSawczyn

@manton I know it's likely not practical at all, but I wish I could have my own Fediverse instance and micro.blog all rolled into one. I guess I sort of have this with m.b already, the missing part is not being able to use Mastodon clients that might make it easier to do certain things. One identity, one feed. I can't even begin to imagine how resource intensive that might be though. Still, as the Fediverse gains popularity, might be an interesting add-on subscription type possibility.

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manton
manton

@SteveSawczyn Thanks, it's mostly all there except Mastodon clients, as you said. I've experimented with that but I'm not sure what the best path forward is, since Mastodon features and Micro.blog features don't exactly match up.

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@manton Well, I’m a bit surprised by this announcement. But I’m willing to take a wait and see attitude here. It’s too early to decide. The good thing is that my followers count is probably very low, so no issue for me! 😂

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SteveSawczyn
SteveSawczyn

@manton I think that's one of the biggest challenges with the Fediverse, mismatches between platforms and their features. In my case, I could see myself using Mastodon clients to interact with my feed while using the m.b client to compose longer form posts and to do other things that are mb specific. I'm admittedly a bit of an edge case though as the advantage of certain Mastodon clients for me would offer more efficient navigation, especially between posts, with VoiceOver.

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