Ghost fediverse pricing manton.org

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

@manton disappointing... 🤨

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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

@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

@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.

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

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

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

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@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

@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.

@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.

@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! 😂