#cleveland #ohio #unitedstates - Franklin Castle: A castle located in downtown Cleveland is said to be haunted by a ghost that roams the hallways at n. . . Read: https://hauntedlineage.com/directory/franklin-castle

So, remember how a couple of days ago, I said I was going to try to turn a Wordpress site into a Fediverse solo instance?

I tried.

First, I took an old unused site, I stripped it of all unnecessary plugins and installed all the ActivityPub related plugins. I could log in with Elk and Phanpy with it, followed a few people, posted a few things...

However, while I could see the Fediverse, the site remained invisible to the rest of the Fediverse. I have no idea why.

Step two: I took another active site that already has the ActivityPub plugin. I activated the "author accounts" installed a few more plugins and... It's a bit of a mess. It's very slow, I can log in with Phanpy but not with Elk. I can follow the account from Mastodon or Firefish, but I don't see the posts. (when I post a regular blog post, it eventually shows up on my regular feeds but it can take time). And it's overall very slow.

So in conclusion, I warmly advise you to set up the ActivityPub plugin to your Wordpress sites so that people can follow them from the Fediverse, but that's it. Using a Wordpress site as a "regular" Fediverse instance is a fun experiment, but it's not very practical. Maybe it is if you're way more knowledgeable than me about server things and can tweak yours, probably.

Next, I'm really curious about Ghost on the Fediverse, but I already have a hosted Ghost newsletter, I'm not sure if it's wise to start yet another blog/newsletter on GhostPro. Maybe I should just wait for federation to become available for all Ghost installations.


#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Wordpress #Ghost #GhostPro

Alright, I shut down some old Wordpress sites I don't really use anymore.

This weekend, I'm trying to turn one into a Fediverse solo instance and see what happens.

I'm also quite tempted to try a Fediverse-connected Ghost Pro installation.


#Fediverse #Wordpress #Ghost #GhostPro #ActivityPub

Looking for #Ghost themes that are highly customizable out of the box.

YES, I can make my own and install node.js and Ghost locally and futz around that way, and YES I can inject CSS.

But c'moooooon

I took this photo while on a guided tour of the Wabasha Street Caves in St. Paul, which were a 1930s Prohibition era gangster hangout. The tour guide was briefly here talking about the caves behind him. They were filled with the wreckage of a flood. I can't figure out where that shadow above him is coming from. These caves are supposedly haunted due to a gangster shootout that happened there.

@billbennett
In a comment on a recent edition of Ghost's AP newsletter, you asked how you get lively fediverse discussions happening in the comments of your #Ghost newsletter.

One answer is, the same way you get them happening on a Mastodon account. You get people to follow @index (for now), so they see your pieces as posts in their fediverse feeds. Also add relevant hashtags to your pieces on Ghost, so they come up in tag searches on servers where there's someone following you.

So... @killyourfm convinced me to migrate my blog to #Ghost.

https://blog.gardinerbryant.com/why-i-ditched-wordpress-for-ghost/

#TIL that the source code for adding ActivityPub support to a Ghost instance is available for experimentation by community-hosters. With the caveat that;

"This repository is being actively developed and is currently in early alpha - expect many breaking changes. It is not suitable for production use."

https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub

springtime ghostie in the garden #needlefelting #ghost

YES, thank you #Ghost! This is the way.

Strange lights can sometimes be spotted in the German countryside at night.

Some of them are friendly, and some of them are... not.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lighting-way-to-47458631

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.

[058] “A Ghost of 50 Berkeley Square, London” (n.d.)

Graham’s reading:
https://youtu.be/P0H4wSK_M1I

Further background:
https://london-beyond-time-and-place.com/50-berkeley-square-the-most-haunted-house-in-london/

Image: 50 Berkeley Square today. This famous haunting repeatedly belies the claim that living persons cannot be physically harmed by anomalous forces.

Very exciting news about #Ghost, the blogging software I use for my website, beta testing their new social web integration! Activating it enables direct interaction with blogs on #Wordpress and soon #Tumblr, #Mastodon and the whole #Fediverse, as well as #BlueSky and #Threads according to their changelog:

https://ghost.org/changelog/social-web-beta/

As a self-hosting user I'll have to wait for a stable release but I am thrilled!

#Ghost or #WriteFreely? #Blogging

I put together this little website that allows you to build your own custom "spirit box"!

Upload any audio file(s), and the app turns it into spirit box style audio for your weird #paranormal experiments.

Now you can #ghost hunt with the theme music from Chip n' Dales Rescue Rangers or whatever the heck you want!

https://spiritbox.liminal.earth

Congrats to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost, which today announced a public beta for users to connect their publications to the fediverse. If you're in their beta, you'll be able to find, follow and interact with people and publications on platforms including Ghost, WordPress, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard and more. Get details in the blogpost here. If you want to know more about Ghost's approach to decentralization and the open social web, check out John's DotSocial conversation with @mike at the second link.

https://ghost.org/changelog/social-web-beta/

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

#Ghost just announced cross-platforming for fediverse and decentralized media. Again. People seeing the moment and taking it.

The Black Monk of the Danube was a terrifying specter of doom.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadful-52009109

The McPherson Playhouse theatre in Victoria, BC has supposedly received visits from the "Grey Lady" over the last 75 years. This female ghost wears a long, blue-grey dress and wanders the theatre's balcony; sometimes she floats above the actors. No one knows her true identity.