Question for something I’m writing: would it be possible for Substack to make substack Notes (its twitter like feature within the Substack app) part of the fediverse?
I’m wondering if this is something that’s technically possible or not and I don’t know enough about how the fediverse operates to know if it would be feasible. #fediverse
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social probably, but as they’re a nazi-accepting platform, they’d probably get defederated by a whole lot of servers rather fast, so there might not be much of a point.
@jvnknvlgl@mastodon.social Ghost also accepts nazis, I realize they’re not part of the fediverse but I struggle to find a single publishing tool that doesn’t allow allow reprehensible people to publish.
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social feels funny to respond very narrowly here but: Ghost is currently adding ActivityPub support so is kind of prototyping being part of the fediverse https://activitypub.ghost.org/
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social @jvnknvlgl@mastodon.social check out buttondown. a follower kindly provided this link to their ToS when I asked: https://mastodon.social/@jandi/113376268019802243
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social do they? I hadn’t seen anything about that yet.
@jvnknvlgl@mastodon.social they do! They have less moderation than Substack but it was never a viral headline. I’m not defending it or saying “well this platform is also bad so it’s ok for Substack to do xyz” just saying it’s a broader systemic issue with these email newsletter platforms and publishing tools that don’t want to get into the content moderation business
@taylorlorenz @jvnknvlgl there will of course be some nuances with Ghost being an open source product, but as far as I can tell, this claim is at least misleading as far a it goes for their hosted product.
