Thousands of sites using the popular #Ghost platform are now Fediverse compatible, so you can follow them from Mastodon etc 🥳
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Posts should start showing up when they next publish something
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Thousands of sites using the popular #Ghost platform are now Fediverse compatible, so you can follow them from Mastodon etc 🥳
Here's how to discover and follow them:
1. Go to https://explore.ghost.org
2. Click category tab you want (swipe categories right to see more)
3. Click on a site to preview, then box-arrow icon to go to it
4. Copy the site's domain name
5. Paste @ index @ (domain name) into the search box in Mastodon etc without spaces
6. Click the profile and then "Follow"@FediTips unfortunately this does not seem to work when the "ghost" is not the index of a (sub)domain... for instance https://www.bio-sourced.com/blog/ I don't know what the right handle should be, then.
Anyway, would definitely be useful if they could auto-generate the fediverse handle as a link next to the rss feed icon... (though the rss feed also does not seem to work for this site) -
@FediTips unfortunately this does not seem to work when the "ghost" is not the index of a (sub)domain... for instance https://www.bio-sourced.com/blog/ I don't know what the right handle should be, then.
Anyway, would definitely be useful if they could auto-generate the fediverse handle as a link next to the rss feed icon... (though the rss feed also does not seem to work for this site)Yeah, it doesn't work 100% of the time. As well as the directory/domain issue, some of the sites don't have Fedi compatibility switched on.
However, after going through hundreds of the ones listed it does seem to work for most of them so far.
As a workaround I've been curating the sites and adding the good ones that work to fedi.directory so people can easily follow them by just copy-pastng the Fedi address. You can see the ones I've added so far at https://fedi.directory/tag/ghost
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@FediTips unfortunately this does not seem to work when the "ghost" is not the index of a (sub)domain... for instance https://www.bio-sourced.com/blog/ I don't know what the right handle should be, then.
Anyway, would definitely be useful if they could auto-generate the fediverse handle as a link next to the rss feed icon... (though the rss feed also does not seem to work for this site)p.s. By the way, even if the handle is different, the @ index version should autodirect to the correct handle which is why I've included it in the steps.
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Thousands of sites using the popular #Ghost platform are now Fediverse compatible, so you can follow them from Mastodon etc 🥳
Here's how to discover and follow them:
1. Go to https://explore.ghost.org
2. Click category tab you want (swipe categories right to see more)
3. Click on a site to preview, then box-arrow icon to go to it
4. Copy the site's domain name
5. Paste @ index @ (domain name) into the search box in Mastodon etc without spaces
6. Click the profile and then "Follow"@FediTips This is an accessibility nightmare! When I went to the site, I saw slides and whatnot, but below that were normal links for the categories. I clicked on oneand it brought me to the list for that specific category. But each newsletter was presented as a button, not a link. When I tried to click on them, nothing happened. I switched from Firefox to Supermium but that didn't help. I am using Windows 11 and NVDA.
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@FediTips This is an accessibility nightmare! When I went to the site, I saw slides and whatnot, but below that were normal links for the categories. I clicked on oneand it brought me to the list for that specific category. But each newsletter was presented as a button, not a link. When I tried to click on them, nothing happened. I switched from Firefox to Supermium but that didn't help. I am using Windows 11 and NVDA.
Thanks for this headsup, that sounds awful! I can't find anything mentioning accessibility on their site either.
For what it's worth, I'm currently manually curating the good Ghost accounts onto fedi.directory at https://fedi.directory/tag/ghost which is hopefully more accessible. It's unfortunately just a big long list in the Ghost category but the same accounts appear in their respective topics on the https://fedi.directory site alongside Mastodon and other accounts.
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Thousands of sites using the popular #Ghost platform are now Fediverse compatible, so you can follow them from Mastodon etc 🥳
Here's how to discover and follow them:
1. Go to https://explore.ghost.org
2. Click category tab you want (swipe categories right to see more)
3. Click on a site to preview, then box-arrow icon to go to it
4. Copy the site's domain name
5. Paste @ index @ (domain name) into the search box in Mastodon etc without spaces
6. Click the profile and then "Follow"p.s. This doesn't work for 100% of Ghost sites, but it seems to work for most of them. It depends on whether they have Fediverse compatibility switched on.
p.p.s. I know the discovery process above is fiddly, which is why I've started manually curating good quality Ghost sites that are Fedi compatible on fedi.directory along with their Fediverse addresses. You can browse the ones listed so far at https://fedi.directory/tag/Ghost and just paste the addresses straight into your Mastodon etc search box.
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Thanks for this headsup, that sounds awful! I can't find anything mentioning accessibility on their site either.
For what it's worth, I'm currently manually curating the good Ghost accounts onto fedi.directory at https://fedi.directory/tag/ghost which is hopefully more accessible. It's unfortunately just a big long list in the Ghost category but the same accounts appear in their respective topics on the https://fedi.directory site alongside Mastodon and other accounts.
@FediTips This is excellent! I love how each one is under a different heading, so they are easy to navigate!
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@FediTips This is excellent! I love how each one is under a different heading, so they are easy to navigate!
Oh, thank you! That's really great to hear!
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Thousands of sites using the popular #Ghost platform are now Fediverse compatible, so you can follow them from Mastodon etc 🥳
Here's how to discover and follow them:
1. Go to https://explore.ghost.org
2. Click category tab you want (swipe categories right to see more)
3. Click on a site to preview, then box-arrow icon to go to it
4. Copy the site's domain name
5. Paste @ index @ (domain name) into the search box in Mastodon etc without spaces
6. Click the profile and then "Follow"Tested with Emojipedia. Your instructions said to copy the domain, but the sub domain was also needed.
So...
@indexIt took forever before a result popped up.
No problem subscribing.
Only problem was that none of the five existing posts were visible, but I guess/hope new posts will work betterThanks for the tip!
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Tested with Emojipedia. Your instructions said to copy the domain, but the sub domain was also needed.
So...
@indexIt took forever before a result popped up.
No problem subscribing.
Only problem was that none of the five existing posts were visible, but I guess/hope new posts will work betterThanks for the tip!
Yeah, I couldn't fit the word subdomain in the character limit
so I assumed people would guess.The first time you enter the address on a particular server it can take a while to resolve, but after that it should come up straight away.
As with all Fedi accounts, if you're the first person to follow from your server it may look blank but posts made from this moment onwards should start showing up when they're published.
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p.s. This doesn't work for 100% of Ghost sites, but it seems to work for most of them. It depends on whether they have Fediverse compatibility switched on.
p.p.s. I know the discovery process above is fiddly, which is why I've started manually curating good quality Ghost sites that are Fedi compatible on fedi.directory along with their Fediverse addresses. You can browse the ones listed so far at https://fedi.directory/tag/Ghost and just paste the addresses straight into your Mastodon etc search box.
p.p.p.s. If you are finding this all a bit complicated and you just want to click on an account and follow it, you can see lots of good Ghost accounts listed in the latest post thread over at @FediFollows
(Don't worry if an account looks blank, this is normal. This is caused by being the first person from your server to follow an account, but new posts by the account will show up as they are published.)
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Yeah, I couldn't fit the word subdomain in the character limit
so I assumed people would guess.The first time you enter the address on a particular server it can take a while to resolve, but after that it should come up straight away.
As with all Fedi accounts, if you're the first person to follow from your server it may look blank but posts made from this moment onwards should start showing up when they're published.
For blog.mozilla.ai I needed to use the domain without the subdomain...
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For blog.mozilla.ai I needed to use the domain without the subdomain...
Oooh, interesting... Thanks for that, will keep that in mind.
