Substack hosts swastika-laden Nazi accounts promoting white supremacism (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters).

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Substack hosts swastika-laden Nazi accounts promoting white supremacism (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters). If you're currently using Substack, you might want to switch to a more ethical alternative like Ghost.

Ghost is a Fediverse-compatible blog and newsletter platform, it runs on free open software and you can host it yourself or use a paid hosting service. More info:

️ https://fedi.tips/ghost-blogs-and-newsletters-on-the-fediverse

The journalist @molly0xfff wrote on moving from Substack to Ghost:

️ https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost

#Substack

[lautreg@pouet.chapril.org]

@FediTips @molly0xfff
Ghost have many external dependency, using a lot of CDN too. Same with local self hosting.

[dendu68@social.vivaldi.net]

@FediTips @molly0xfff

Thanks for the heads up on this … I have added another to my boycott list

[faduda@mastodon.ie]

@molly0xfff @FediTips

Use Ghost is the new 'install linux'. I have yet to find a well written guide to setting up a ghost install.

[haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com]

@yogthos i always think of you when I read this since you have a substack. Are you considering leaving or do you have reasons not to switch? I dont assume its technical knowledge.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@lautreg

The article by @molly0xfff covers the process of self-hosting and the advantages of it it:

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.

Citation Needed (www.citationneeded.news)

It's not perfect but it's much, much better than using Substack. Much more ethical, much more freedom, much cheaper overall.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@faduda

If you don't want to do any techy stuff, you can use a managed hosting service, I link to them in the guide:

Cloud68
https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting/ghost

Ghost.org
https://ghost.org

It is really easy to use managed hosting, you don't need to install anything.

There are also official instructions for a manual self-hosted install:
https://docs.ghost.org/install

[faduda@mastodon.ie]

@molly0xfff @FediTips

Every guide I see to setting up your own Ghost install ...

https://youtu.be/G7Do2tlYLhs

[thecasualcritic@writing.exchange]

@FediTips @molly0xfff
There's also @write_as and @writefreely , but I realise it's more of a niche offering

[faduda@mastodon.ie]

@FediTips

But I want to host my own ghost install. I just want to do it without learning a foreign language.