They’re not done yet. Just announcing (and the verge reporting on it).
Their announcement (here) is quite forceful though, interestingly. The article described it as a manifesto.
See also a recent post here about their survey on integrating activity pub: https://lemmy.ml/post/14734757
Yea the paid subscription question is the big one here. Ghost’s announcement stated that they think it will be easy to integrate that with ActivityPub, which I’d interesting because no one has done it while I think there’s been a good amount of demand for some sort of solution. If ghost sort that out for the ecosystem it could unlock the fediverse for some other platforms. Nebula comes to mind especially.
I ran across this exchange with Ghost CEO John O’Nolan on the Product Hunt announcement:
Levelsio:
John O’Nolan replied:
Oooh. Crypto and fediverse … The odd couple!
What is the question, exactly?
I assume your Ghost account will become a Fedi account and your articles will be automatically shared with headlines and links to the article, along with federated boosts, likes and comments.
I suspect it’s more complex than that. If they want any fediverse account to be able to subscribe, which they do, then how do they distribute content only to subscribers and not everyone on their instance?
Subscribe to the user, not the publication. If they want to actually read the article, they’ll have to log in and give them money.
This is pure speculation but it makes the most sense to me.
Yea, that’s the most straightforward for sure … but requires leaving the fediverse. I suspect that there are plans/dreams of being fediverse “native” and enabling the full content/publication to be read from ones fediverse account.