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Move forward or die!

Is anyone working on building an #OpenSource substack alternative? It’s blowing up since they added video and many voices of the opposition are flocking there building up large followings. It’s only a matter of time until that platform will become a tool for surveillance and or be shut down if the opposition gets mobilized. I’m assuming #Ghost has the best opportunity to provide an alternative that can be self hosted on servers outside the US but this will be vital to keep the movement alive!

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The Debugger

Donations to The Debugger are temporarily down, which in the case of #Ghost rely on #Stripe by default. Now, Stripe decided to cancel The Debugger's account, just right after we published our article on #privacy . Coincidence? Probably yes. But we're looking for #onlinepayment alternatives out there, so if you have any suggestions (especially stuff that is not just Stripe or PayPal under the hood) they'll be much appreciated!

#alternative#eualternatives#europeanalternatives
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Timo Zimmermann

I am looking through documentation for #selfhosting #Ghost and its membership features.

I am silently repeating “you want a solution not another project”. How did this software get so popular?!

Want to send a newsletter? Use mailgun.
CDN? Here is a list of blogs how to hopefully exclude all paths and cookies - don’t expect support.
Payments? You really thought we’d support anything but stripe?

And don’t get me started on having to try to remember MySQL stuff which I last did late 90s…

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Six Grandfathers Mountain

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She uses... #Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary #TEDtalk

A Newsletter Writer Reflects On Leaving Substack

First, moving my monetization off of Substack wasn’t as big of a pain in the ass as I thought it would be

#Ghost as my new newsletter host...offered a concierge service that did almost all the work, porting over content and holding my hand... they charge a flat rate rather than taking 10% as Substack did
techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-news

First, moving my monetization off of Substack wasn’t as big of a pain in the ass as I thought it would be. After doing my due diligence I landed on Ghost as my new newsletter host, but there were other very good alternatives, and all of them were offering something close to the same experience. Ghost was and is great, I have to say. They offered a concierge service that did almost all the work, porting over content and holding my hand through moving my subscriptions, and even navigating some hiccups that occurred because of the weird way I’ve set up coupons so that people can pay what they want. The team was extremely responsive and diligent and when (rare) issues have come up they have provided quick and useful advice. Additionally, they charge a flat rate rather than taking 10% of my action, as Substack did. My readership list and subscriptions have grown at the same rate as before and engagement is roughly the same. This isn’t a paid advertisement for Ghost and I’m not even going to bother putting up a referral link. This is simply my word to any other creator who is thinking about jumping off of Substack as that platform’s owners continue time and again to prove they’re a real bullshit bunch of bunkos: Moving is easier than you think and costs less.
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I would encourage you to keep encouraging people to leave Substack, for very good reasons. But I’d also encourage applying a level of clarity to the effort. The Nazi bar metaphor is a useful one, but it’s time to recognize that if you’re in the U.S., the lesson of the story was ignored, and now the country has become a Nazi bar. People targeted by Nazis are going to stay alive any way they can. I think of queer creators and Black creators and creators whose entire income is based on their newsletter: they’re making calculations with different math than I used. I still think they can safely move, and I think it would be better if they did, and I hope they will, but nevertheless I support them as they try to keep their heads above water.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

„However for all creators or potential creators, I will say again: leaving Substack behind is probably a better idea than staying no matter your circumstance, and it is easier than I thought it would be, and it costs less than I feared it would.“ — A.R. Moxon

mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/11

MastodonA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (@JuliusGoat@mastodon.social)Hey my reflections on leaving Substack a year ago are on Techdirt. Isn't that neat? https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/
#substack#ghost#newsletter
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Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🌸

I did a blog 😊. CW #USpol

It’s on my #ghost blog, which is federated, so you can follow @index in masto if you want :donki:

I’m not gonna blog about politics very much, but I started making a long thread and it got unwieldy, so now it’s a blog post

tl;dr: the system is fucked and trump out of power doesn’t change that. We need:

Term limits for SCOTUS
Public election funding
Yeet the Electoral College
End gerrymandering
Guarantee voting rights
flockofcats.xyz/everything-suc

Flock of Cats XYZ · Everything Sucks and Here's What We Should Do About It: A US Politics RantUS Politics is broken. A functioning democracy doesn't just slide into fascism — this has happened because of problems left festering for a very long time. And the solution isn't just to get Dems elected. It's not enough to ping pong between sanity and chaos against a backdrop of dysfunction. Structural
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Clay T

April is National Poetry Month in the US and – seeing as it might be the last one – I’m celebrating by sharing recently-released recordings of poems from my collection Noisesome Ghosts made by Graham Farram.

[184] “A Ghost of the Stage Door, Canberra Theatre Centre” (2071-)

Graham’s reading:
youtu.be/FVO8fF0lj_o

Image: A basement backstage corridor at the Canberra Theatre with the Theatre’s (orange) Stage Door visible at the landing in the background. A speaking and writing ghost is expected to haunt this location from 2071 onwards.

#NationalPoetryMonth#paranormal#ghost
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Anders Eknert

The second song from the upcoming #Ghost album Skeletá just dropped, and musically #Lachryma is a fun 80’s horror pastiche, with a chorus leaning towards glam rock. But more than anything, it’s awesome seeing this new incarnation of the band and of course Papa V. And seeing a mouth moving for the first time in 15 years as he is singing, that’s something!

youtube.com/watch?v=DLG9oTH-Zb

YouTubeGhost - Lachryma (Official Music Video)By GhostBCVEVO
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Gualtiero Grey

Dopo un weekend di riposo, ora intento ad installare #ghost dove vorrei documentare al servizio della comunità le mie esperienze su #homelab #selfhosting #integrazioni e le mie migrazioni dalle comuni piattaforme che sto piano piano mettendo in atto. E anche ovviamente per scoprire questo nuovo medium, appunto Ghost dopo più di un decennio di #wordpress che è diventato talmente banale da essere quasi annoiante.

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