What exactly are 'memberships' in the Ghost context?

Memberships & subscriptions
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We are evaluating Ghost for a large project in which we need to have a section of our site that is a sort of ‘blog’, with curated articles, which we want users to be able to comment on.

  • The site will be built in NextJS and we need to integrate the blog seamlessly into the rest of the site.
  • One day we’d like to be able to have users perhaps publish their own posts on the site
  • Is this what ‘memberships’ are used for?
  • We can’t store any login information on the site itself for data protection reasons. Do Ghost memberships offer social media logins?
  • Is there any sense of when ‘memberships’ will come out of beta?

Thanks for any info!

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You can find out more about members on our site, and in our documentation. What you are describing is users, which you can find out more on here:
https://ghost.org/docs/concepts/users/