Kiwis using Ghost

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Kiwis using Ghost to host their newsletters, blogs, and news publications;

Hosted by Ghost.org

Community-hosted

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Some excellent additions to my RSS feed reader!

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In theory these can all be followed by a fediverse account too. Although with Ghost that requires a bit of setup, which I haven’t done for Disintermedia yet. Also, the testing I’ve done with my Mastodon.nzoss.nz account has been a bit hit and miss. It would be great to organise some rigorous testing to figure out what’s going wrong in each case, and how to get it working.

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On the hit-and-miss following: in my experience it’s almost always WebFinger. A quick way to test a Ghost site before blaming Mastodon is to request /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:index@yourdomain on the site itself - if that doesn’t come back with JSON, no fediverse server will find the account no matter what you type in the search box.

For self-hosted installs the usual culprit is the reverse proxy: nginx or Caddy configs copied from older Ghost guides often only pass the blog paths and drop /.well-known/ and the ActivityPub routes, so it works on Ghost(Pro) and silently fails on a VPS. Also worth searching for the full handle (@index@domain) rather than the site URL - some Mastodon instances resolve one and not the other, which is probably why results vary from account to account.

Happy to help with a round of testing if someone wants to set up a checklist - having a couple of Kiwi Ghost sites followable from the local Mastodon servers would be a nice demo for the rest of the community.

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Thanks for this @MeganStirling. The problems I noticed happened when I was using my account on the venerable mastodon.nzoss.nz server, and could be related to its database issues. I just followed WebWorm.co and BillBennett.co.nz using my new mastodon.nz account, and it’s working fine.