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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch · Sarah Perez · last updated

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, and WriteFreely; and others.

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