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   Maria Bustillos (maria@thelife.boats)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:39 JST Maria Bustillos

   The purpose of Substack is

   1. to make investors money and

   2. keep journalists siloed, fragmented and controllable

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     Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:28 JST Fediverse Report

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     • oscar??
     • David Moore

     @maria @oscar @davidrussellmoore Totally agreed. Someone is actually currently working on building a fediverse plugin for Ghost, so that should make content discovery even easier: https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-wrote-a-mastodon-fediverse-activitypub-integration-for-ghost/37819

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     Maria Bustillos (maria@thelife.boats)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:29 JST Maria Bustillos

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     • oscar??
     • David Moore

     @oscar @davidrussellmoore

     Ah sorry I thought you were a publisher!

     #Mastodon IS THE PLACE.

     Everyone can help build it into a space to connect, a zillion times better than any other social media platform has ever been... because it's owned by everyone, for everyone, and is NOT for making money, it's for human connection.

     Talk, boost, engage, follow, share, participate!!!

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     oscar?? (oscar@mastodon.design)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:33 JST oscar??

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     • David Moore

     @davidrussellmoore @maria @oscar got it! Ghost is definitely an interesting publishing and content management platform, as a reader it’s not really a discovery space or a place to stay connected with journalists.

     I was actually wondering more about that specifically

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     David Moore (davidrussellmoore@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:34 JST David Moore

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     • oscar??

     @maria @oscar Yes, to my eyes, Ghost's leaps over the past couple years mean it offers everything that Substack does and more. Ghost is deeply open-source, so its current features are guaranteed to run on your server of choice, ad-free and surveillance-free.

     And like Maria, we've seen Big-Tech-backed platforms with communities crumble—e.g., Tumblr.

     Substack's lead investor behind its Series A and B rounds was the giant firm Andreesen Horowitz, which made a fortune being early in Facebook...

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     Maria Bustillos (maria@thelife.boats)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:35 JST Maria Bustillos

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     • David Moore

     @oscar

     Many of my colleagues have moved to Ghost, but I don't think the problem can be solved at all effectively without a powerful move toward distributed (community, cooperative, etc) forms of ownership for publishing platforms

     What do you think @davidrussellmoore ??

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     oscar?? (oscar@mastodon.design)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:45:39 JST oscar??

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     @maria what are some good alternatives?