Repost the stuff you love

Missed your weekly dose of decentralized delight? Fear not, for we have returned with more tail wagging tidbits about ActivityPub progress.

Last week, we dropped the unfollow feature like it was hot, and shared the Ghost keynote from FOSDEM 2025. The final video, which fixed a few issues in the preview, is also now available here.

What's new with ActivityPub?

This week we're making more progress toward fleshing out our feature-set in way which are important, yet wholly unsurprising. For those of you who are new around here, allow me to re-introduce myself: I am the repost.

Twitter called them ReTweets, Mastodon calls them Boosts, the ActivityPub spec calls it an Announce, but everyone else just calls it a Repost. The act of sharing a post from someone else with your audience, at the touch of a button.

One small step for pug, one giant tennis ball for pug-kind. Etc.

Public beta news coming soon

The other thing that's new is a bit of a teaser. After a couple of months of testing with a small number of private beta testers, we're now gearing up to launch a public beta of ActivityPub on Ghost(Pro) – which anybody will be able to opt-in to just with the flip of a switch.

We have two more hurdles to conquer before we do that, though: Support for delete activities, allowing to quickly absolve yourself of regret – and improved performance.

Hopefully we'll have news on both of those fronts in the next couple of newsletters!