Face Palm Alert

Manuel Moreale with a spot on observation regarding Ghost CEO John O'Nolan:

You are on your own blog, your own corner of the web, powered by the platform you’re the CEO of, a blog that also serves content via RSS, the thing you’re building a tool for, and you’re telling people to follow the progress on fucking Twitter? Come on John.

This is the exact kind of thing that frustrates me about the current state of the web. I moved again to Ghost recently because I wanted a platform that focused on publishing. It fits my needs. But seeing the person in charge of that platform direct people to a closed silo like X is baffling.

I have written plenty about why social media is broken. The discourse is tired and the platforms are hostile. Sending your user base back into that mess, especially when you run a company built on the premise of independent publishing, feels wrong. It undermines the very product you are selling.

We keep hearing about the open web and ActivityPub. Ghost is actively building this. They promise to let you control your content. Yet, when it comes to the updates that matter, the default is still the billionaire’s playground.

If you believe in the power of the independent web, you have to actually use it. Your blog is right there. Use it.