Hi, I’m trying to complete a Ghost self-hosted installation with Docker, including ActivityPub. The website is working but the ActivityPub part is having problems. @selecteh@selecteh.org can be seen from Mastodon, and I can see my own Mastodon handles from the Network UI, but… If I follow @select…

Ok, we don’t know where else to look. Everything seems to be fine, unless there is a prerequisite assumed in the documentation that we are missing. Like, do we need to install an ActivityPub server or is there one included in the Ghost Docker release? I have commented “# ACTIVITYPUB_TARGET=activity…

I’m still without Activitypub because I do not want to use a different endpoint but my own stack. If someone was able to do it, I will appreciate the guideline.

I just want to mention that the self-hosted instance does work, at least in the latest versions of both Ghost and ActivityPub (and activitypub-migrate). There are a few paths to handle on reverse proxies but it is all on that forum and probably in some official doc/guide as well.

Have you noticed the pubsub section in the activitypub repo? I think that is the key difference between the “fully self hosted” version and the Ghost’s hosted instance. In my case, I’ve managed to self hosted Ap, but using my custom builds and kubernetes. Currently, I’ve switched to ap.ghost.org …

ActivityPub self-hosted isn't quite federating

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icaria36 September 28, 2026, 3:34pm 5

Good to know, thank you very much!

About migration, just a detail – see Migration to another ActivityPub account

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