Newsletter platform Ghost — a popular rival to the reigning Substack — has confirmed it is joining the fediverse later this year.

This means Ghost is joining the likes of Mastodon, Instagram Threads, Wordpress,Flipboard, and others, in the "federated universe", containing decentralized social networks. Ghost's founder John O’Nolan explained in a post on Threads that users have been requesting federation, and asked followers to give their input on how it would work.