Ghost has announced they are working on ActivityPub support. This is great news. Although the “It’s time to bring back the open web” headline irks me since people have been asking Ghost to support open posting APIs for years. Micro.blog had ActivityPub in 2018. But now it’s time? 🤪

@manton

Micro.blog had ActivityPub in 2018.

Err...2017, no?

@pratik No, we launched in 2017 with other APIs like Micropub and Webmention. ActivityPub came a year later.

@manton I agree with you. They look like purely opportunistic instead of showing their real values.

@manton Ah! Always get confused between those terms.

@manton as predicted, Threads and Wordpress took ActivityPub to the mainstream and lit Dante's Inferno underneath a lot of booties. I'm glad lots more projects are looking into federation though.

@manton don’t feel bad about it. The road is paved, then used. You did the paving.

@numericcitizen To be fair, it’s been on their to do list since at least 2018. Just took a (long) while to hit the top…