I’m curious to know from Activitypub beta users if you are actually seeing growth in subscribers from posting notes in the Fediverse.
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Currently when I view my test ActivityPub notes in Mastodon (using the web browser), there are no links back to the Ghost site itself. I can see the name, because it’s in the user handle, but I don’t see anything that’s an actual link.
Seems like that’s something that could be improved!
Here’s what I currently see (viewing an AP post as a Mastodon user, on mastodon.social):
The thing at the bottom that looks like it might be a link to my site doesn’t go to the front page or anything – it goes to a json text file.
To be fair, I don’t think that notes should lead back to the sites. They are more like native shortform content on ActivityPub. You also wouldn’t have a link back to mastodon.social when viewing a shortform post from Mastodon anywhere else.
Depends how you define it. I have not seen any new email subscribers, but being active on ActivityPub through Ghost has brought me a) followers from other Ghost sites that I didn’t know before and b) non-Ghost ActivityPub users following me
So, all in all…more people reading my content?
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Thanks, that is very helpful to know. For me, the biggest potential advantage of the ActivityPub implementation is to expand my presence to a wider audience, with the ultimate goal being to increase subscriber count for my Ghost site.
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Sorry for not being tech savvy but that notes feed in my dashboard [Ghost Pro] is that something that also comes with a link for people to see?