Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon feels like an XY problem without knowing what you don't like about Ghost
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@Em0nM4stodon feels like an XY problem without knowing what you don't like about Ghost
@jonah What makes me hesitant with Ghost is:
- The high monthly fee
- I'd rather not have to create an account on Stripe, and it seems Ghost only accepts Stripe.
- Potential limited customization for themes, but I have not researched too deep into available themes.
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@elebertus I already have many websites that I coded myself, but I'm looking for an easy solution where I could accept donations. I might still just code it all myself, but maybe there's something out there that would fit my need already.
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon @britt Self-host WordPress https://wordpress.org add the ActivityPub plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ and plenty of donation plugins available.
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@Em0nM4stodon @britt Self-host WordPress https://wordpress.org add the ActivityPub plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ and plenty of donation plugins available.
@macmanx Have you used this solution yourself? How much control do you have on the data collected from visitors on WordPress?
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon Would a static website with Patreon/Liberapay/Ko-Fi/etc. for donations work? What federation features are you looking for?
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon try https://write.as/ maybe?
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@macmanx Have you used this solution yourself? How much control do you have on the data collected from visitors on WordPress?
@Em0nM4stodon I’ve used WordPress for decades, and the ActivityPub plugin for a year now.
You host the WordPress installation on a hosting provider of your choosing. By default, it collects no data on visitors unless you require logging in to comment, in which case that data is only stored on your server. You can add stats plugins to collect more, some store on your server and some integrate with third-party services where the data would be stored elsewhere of course.
(There is also a hosted version of WordPress at WordPress.com where you do use their services and they do collect data, but you’re under no obligation to go that route.)
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon Maybe Pika? Although I doubt it actually meets all your requirements, but it seems like a good alternative for some people who are (hopefully) moving away from Substack. https://pika.page/
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@jonah What makes me hesitant with Ghost is:
- The high monthly fee
- I'd rather not have to create an account on Stripe, and it seems Ghost only accepts Stripe.
- Potential limited customization for themes, but I have not researched too deep into available themes.
@Em0nM4stodon unfortunately, the only other solution (besides DIY) I'm aware of remains WordPress :(
There are other services like write.as but poor theming/customization is usually the case with all of them I believe.
1. Costs me $3.28/month to host jonaharagon.com at https://www.pikapods.com.
2. True, if you need it to integrate with memberships or paywalled articles. If it's only donations like a tip jar though, you could just embed anything you want of course.
3. Not a ton of themes. Ghost themes are static HTML though, somewhat similarish to Jekyll's if you're familiar with those.
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@Em0nM4stodon Would a static website with Patreon/Liberapay/Ko-Fi/etc. for donations work? What federation features are you looking for?
@shadow53 Indeed, I already use a simple static website now, but I'm looking if there could be an easier "all-in-one" solution, so that I would spend less time with coding and more time with writing.
I'm picky though (especially about data collection and design), and might just come back to a static website if it's simpler in the end.
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@Em0nM4stodon try https://write.as/ maybe?
@evan I will look it up! Thanks! 🙏
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@Em0nM4stodon I’ve used WordPress for decades, and the ActivityPub plugin for a year now.
You host the WordPress installation on a hosting provider of your choosing. By default, it collects no data on visitors unless you require logging in to comment, in which case that data is only stored on your server. You can add stats plugins to collect more, some store on your server and some integrate with third-party services where the data would be stored elsewhere of course.
(There is also a hosted version of WordPress at WordPress.com where you do use their services and they do collect data, but you’re under no obligation to go that route.)
@macmanx This is very helpful information! Thank you!!
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@Em0nM4stodon Maybe Pika? Although I doubt it actually meets all your requirements, but it seems like a good alternative for some people who are (hopefully) moving away from Substack. https://pika.page/
@kevinashworth Thank you! I will go look at it 👀
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon self-hosted Ghost with thé ActivityPub service to federate?
https://activitypub.ghost.org/ -
@Em0nM4stodon unfortunately, the only other solution (besides DIY) I'm aware of remains WordPress :(
There are other services like write.as but poor theming/customization is usually the case with all of them I believe.
1. Costs me $3.28/month to host jonaharagon.com at https://www.pikapods.com.
2. True, if you need it to integrate with memberships or paywalled articles. If it's only donations like a tip jar though, you could just embed anything you want of course.
3. Not a ton of themes. Ghost themes are static HTML though, somewhat similarish to Jekyll's if you're familiar with those.
@jonah Interesting! That's much more affordable actually. I will look it up. Thanks for the recommendation Jonah!
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
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Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
- Federates
- Allows to collect donations
- Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
@Em0nM4stodon some interesting solutions in the comments so thanks for asking
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@jonah Interesting! That's much more affordable actually. I will look it up. Thanks for the recommendation Jonah!
@Em0nM4stodon if you end up using Ghost with your own custom theme I will leave you with these resources to look into, to disable as much of Ghost's client-side JS for visitors as you'd like:
- https://www.spectralwebservices.com/blog/adding-new-features-to-ghost-head/
- https://docs.ghost.org/config#privacy
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