Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack's newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse ' or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, more recently, Instagram Threads, among others. Last week, the company teased its plans by surveying its users about how they may want federation to work. Founder John O'Nolan had explained in a post on Threads that there are many potential ways that Ghost could leverage federation in its software, but wanted to know how users would expect things to work. According to some replies, the hope was that Ghost's blog and newsletter authors would become fediverse accounts, while each of their posts would be federated to the fediverse. This would allow users to follow Ghost's authors from their preferred app, as well as like and reply to their posts from the fediverse. These replies could then be posted back on the author's site as a blog...
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