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#Ghost is a FOSS self-hostable blogging platform which includes optional subscription features (it's effectively an ethical alternative to #Substack).

The devs are now connecting Ghost to the #Fediverse, the beta of Fediverse support has just been released for people who use Ghost's official hosting service:

➡️ activitypub.ghost.org/social-w

You can find out more about their Fedi support at:

➡️ activitypub.ghost.org

...and more about Ghost itself at:

➡️ ghost.org

(via @molly0xfff)

Building ActivityPub · The social web beta is hereYou can now try out ActivityPub on Ghost(Pro)

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 54F at Logan Airport and visibility is 3mi.

The Trump administration has placed all journalists at Voice of America on administrative leave.

Protests at Tesla dealerships have spread nationwide.

A green card holder described being stripped naked and put in a cold shower during an interrogation at Logan Airport.

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@Gargron Greetings! Thank you for creating and releasing Mastodon for everyone to build communities, make connections, and support a decentralized Internet. I’m really curious about the long-term vision for Mastodon. As the network grows, what are some of the things the development team is most excited about building or improving, while still staying true to the principles of decentralization and user control?

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Happy Friday, technophiles! Please check out these federated Flipboard sources and Magazines. Follow them for product reviews, trends, exclusive interviews and opinion, and the latest in technology news. 💾 🤖 🕹️

Keep up with all the latest in crypto at Decrypt Media, flipboard.com/@decryptmedia/cr

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News, reviews and trends from Samsung and Android at Android Authority, flipboard.com/@androidauth/sam

The latest deals on Google products and services via 9to5Google, flipboard.com/@9to5google/goog

Can't get enough AI? Gizmodo has up-to-date coverage, flipboard.com/@gizmodo/artific

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Finally, our team had a wonderful time at #SXSW on Sunday and Monday, where Flipboard and @surf hosted the first #FediverseHouse. Our CEO @mike and the whole team are 100% #TeamFediverse, and were thrilled to meet and talk to so many other open social web advocates. Here’s a feature by @Markoff for @newyorktimes, where Mike, @Gargron and @reckless1280 discuss the rise of decentralized social media, and how it can help publishers and media companies survive and thrive.

nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technol

Mike McCue, the chief executive of Flipboard, sees its new Surf browser as a tool to help internet users communicate without relying on a single centralized service.
The New York Times · Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized PlatformsBy John Markoff
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“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by @Daojoan. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes.

joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver

westenberg. · The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 41F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

The US Senate is poised to vote on a spending bill that would avert a shutdown but also slash funding for programs like Medicaid.

Trump admin demands Columbia University change curricula or permanently lose federal funding.

Dr. Mehmet Oz will have confirmation hearings today; he's the Trump admin's pick for head of Medicare and Medicaid.

St. Patrick's Day approaches:

#Mastodon is taking off! But Internet history provides numerous examples of other promising platforms for the digital public sphere that have died untimely deaths (remember Second Life?).

@rwg and @aram, who have reviewed the history and looked at the challenges, and still bullish on the #Fediverse.

Do you think Mastodon will have staying power? theconversation.com/the-fedive
#MastodonMigration

The ConversationThe fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfallsThe fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 42F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Some accepted grad students at UMass got their offers rescinded; the school is pulling back due to Trump cuts to #science funding.

20 US states are suing to block the massive cuts to the federal Department of #Education in a suit filed in Massachusetts today.

A man was caught by TSA concealing a turtle in his pants at a #NewJersey airport.

We're taking a trip:

Yesterday at #FediverseHouse we announced
Bluesky integration, but that's not the only update Surf users will see in the latest beta.

You can now create unified home timelines incorporating Bluesky and Mastodon following feeds, Starter Packs, lists and custom feeds. And you can also use filters to exclude issues or topics you don’t want to see in your feed. Sign up for the waitlist here — and if you're currently beta testing Surf, please send your suggestions for improvements to feedback@surf.social, and bigs and issues to support@surf.social.

waitlist.surf.social/

Surf WaitlistSurf WaitlistSign up for the Surf Dawn Patrol Beta.

🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 59F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Trump escalated his administration's trade war with Canada, doubling tariffs on metals.

Iconic Allston business Twin Donuts is slated to close this month. 🙏🍩🙏

Former Phillipine president Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested on an ICC warrant.

This week in 1997, Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on TV.

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