This is a fork of Ghost, the brilliant open source publishing platform. We renamed it to avoid any confusion — "Ghost" is their name, not ours, and we’re not using it with their permission. This fork adds Bluesky/AT Protocol integration (OAuth login, bidirectional comment sync, post-as-user). We’d love for the Ghost team to take this work back upstream if it’s useful to them.
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- Bluesky OAuth login for members — sign in with your Bluesky handle via AT Protocol OAuth 2.1 (DPoP + PKCE)
- Progressive scope upgrade — login with minimal permissions (
atproto), upgrade to write access (atproto transition:generic) when the user wants their comments to post as themselves on Bluesky - Bidirectional comment sync — Ghost comments post to linked Bluesky threads, Bluesky replies sync back as Ghost comments (with threading)
- Post-as-user — members with write scope have their comments posted from their own Bluesky account, not the blog’s
- Graceful scope handling — if a user revokes access, the system detects it, falls back to the blog account, and shows the upgrade prompt again
See the blog post for a detailed walkthrough of the implementation and the gotchas we hit.
ghost/core/core/server/services/atproto-oauth/— OAuth client, callback, session restore, scope upgradeghost/core/core/server/services/bluesky-sync/— bidirectional comment syncapps/comments-ui/src/components/content/forms/main-form.tsx— upgrade prompt + Bluesky discussion link
Everything below is from the original Ghost README.
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