Anyone using Ghost as their Fediverse instance? Thinking about migrating my Mastodon to Ghost as Fedi connectivity is now built in to Ghost and saves the cost of maintaining a Mastodon instance.
Thoughts?
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Dr Robert N. Winter
@robert@social.winter.ink
mastodon 4.7.2Writer. Podcaster. Host of On the Subject of Leadership. For people who are sceptical of easy answers.
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Version 5 of my online wanderings takes me back to Ghost—each platform a philosophy as much as a tool.
Thanks to some people who are perhaps blissfully unaware of this influence on my choice. @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer for sharp notes on Ghost’s strengths; @basil@sarcasm.stream for the habitual sarcasm; and @kev@fosstodon.org, my rival in platform-hopping. With luck I’ll stay put this time and he can sprint ahead on the tally.
Loving my switch to Zen because I’m done with browsers optimised for extraction.
Zen’s line—“a calmer internet”—isn’t marketing fluff. Spaces create real separation between thinking, banking, and browsing. The design is quiet. The defaults are respectful. The browser serves the work, not the other way around.
Beautiful and refreshingly restrained.
I always find Dr Belshaw to be a deep thinker, and his new eBook ‘How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis’ is no exception. He compellingly argues that our strategic failures often stem not from lack of information but from outdated mental models, and shows how epistemic humility and better thinking tools help us navigate interconnected crises more wisely.
That is the thread running through this month’s edition of The Scribbler.
This edition explores why:
✅ speed without admissibility degrades decision quality;
✅ “clarity” without provenance creates false confidence;
✅ poor delivery of bad news is not a communications failure but an authority failure, and;
✅ restraint—whether in attention, language, or response—is a valid strategic competence.
#Leadership #Strategy #CriticalThinking
https://robert.winter.ink/the-scribbler-the-case-for-friction/
RE: @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
The Alfred Jewel embodies Alfred’s belief that stable political membership depends upon informed judgement. Meaning that literacy and learning are not private accomplishments but instruments of lawful citizenship, enabling subjects and officials to participate responsibly in a moral-legal commonwealth.
With the festive crush I’ve been a bit lax in posting here—so here’s a belated 2025 Year in Review. A strategic recap on authority, trust, coherence, language, and the quiet ways organisations drift into theatre, plus what 2026 will demand: AI governance, provenance, regulation, and sharper trade-offs.
Oh, and if you want to follow my blog directly on the fedi to read articles as they are posted, in case the human operator is delayed mentioning them here: @index
Read: https://robert.winter.ink/2025-in-review-authority-attention-and-the-return-of-coherence/
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@friedelitis@mastodon.social We are experiencing the same thing down under...
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/no-trains-are-moving-all-sydney-trains-down-ahead-of-afternoon-peak-20230308-p5cqgq.html
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@freddy@social.lol Thought that might be the case as when I later cross checked on my desktop there was no menu button.
#peskymobileresponsive
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@freddy@social.lol Good piece. Though, I do celebrated Zuck doing a 180 form his long avowed belief that ‘privacy is no longer a social norm’. Given his global power, even mere lip service is a step in the right direction.
Also, your menu does not seem to be working on mobile? When I click the menu in the top right I just get a blank screen.
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A note for the reply guys: yes, the paper is precise about machine learning, not “AI”. That matters in methods sections. In public discussion, AI is shorthand for scale and capability. The point isn’t tool taxonomy—it’s that far more of the past becomes visible to people without a restricted access pass, moving history out of the ivory tower and into the town square.
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@duncanhart@mastodon.duncanhart.com @dr hmm… small hitch. Don’t seem to be able to login to the Ghost instance from an app like Mastodon or Metatext. Gives a 405 error.
I know Ghost’s fediverse social integration is still in beta. So perhaps a move to make once out of beta as it is convenient to use an app rather than doing everything via my Ghost console.
People don’t resent bad news because it’s negative. They resent it because it’s delivered without honesty, dignity, or choice.
Layoffs, restructures, mandates—these aren’t messaging problems, they’re human ones.
The managers remembered well are those who did not add unnecessary cruelty to necessity—and who understood that when the news is bad, the method becomes the message.
Psychological safety is often miscast as comfort. It's time to restore a harder edge: as a discipline that lets teams surface error early, challenge authority safely, and keep standards sharp—especially in hybrid work, where voice is fragile and candour is the real performance engine.
https://robert.winter.ink/a-delicate-dance-of-trust-and-openness/
My host says I can’t use a CNAME for a Ghost custom domain **and** keep email on the same sub-domain — they suggest transferring. Looking for a registrar with full DNS control (CNAME + MX on sub-domain), ideally EU-based and privacy-centric.
Heard good things about Gandi — still solid?
Other recommendations?
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@duncanhart@mastodon.duncanhart.com might give the migration a go this weekend, if I get time. As for the handle, that is always a tricky one.
Given I’m locked into the domain attached with my site which already carries robert.winter.ink, will likely take @dr because the @index@robert.winter.ink which is the current default feels a little impersonal.