After a long silence, Tumblr confirms it is still planning to join the fediverse.
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After a long silence, Tumblr confirms it is still planning to join the fediverse.
> The migration is still a work in progress, as we’ve previously detailed here, but we can say for sure that it will include support for WordPress’s existing ActivityPub plugins. We hope this comes as good news.
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After a long silence, Tumblr confirms it is still planning to join the fediverse.
> The migration is still a work in progress, as we’ve previously detailed here, but we can say for sure that it will include support for WordPress’s existing ActivityPub plugins. We hope this comes as good news.
@box464 Hard to get excited with everything that's been going on around Automattic, but interesting news nonetheless!
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@box464 Hard to get excited with everything that's been going on around Automattic, but interesting news nonetheless!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @box464@mastodon.social it doesn't sound like they're going to support ActivityPub, it sounds like they're developing a purpose-built migrator to go from Tumblr to WordPress, at which point the AP plugin would do the heavy lifting.
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@julian yeah, it reads to me the same way: "good news everybody, we're going to murder Tumblr, dress up some WordPress blogs in its clothing, and claim a win because it'll be visible in the fediverse!"
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After a long silence, Tumblr confirms it is still planning to join the fediverse.
> The migration is still a work in progress, as we’ve previously detailed here, but we can say for sure that it will include support for WordPress’s existing ActivityPub plugins. We hope this comes as good news.
@box464 Bruh tumblr on the fedi would be so good
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@julian yeah, it reads to me the same way: "good news everybody, we're going to murder Tumblr, dress up some WordPress blogs in its clothing, and claim a win because it'll be visible in the fediverse!"
@womble So, in layman's terms, they're migrating all Tumblr blogs to WordPress, and since WordPress can already connect to the Fediverse, they can say it's Fediverse compatible after that?
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@julian yeah, it reads to me the same way: "good news everybody, we're going to murder Tumblr, dress up some WordPress blogs in its clothing, and claim a win because it'll be visible in the fediverse!"
@womble @julian if the tumblr migration to a Wordpress backend actually happens (doubt), it won't be smooth. I suspect Mullenweg is finally going to ruin the site for good, which pains me because it's the only for-profit social network I've ever loved.
I really hope we get a viable ActivtyPub workalike with enough of the same UX at some point. I've wanted to build one for years but have been preoccupied with surviving.
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@julian Looks like you were right on the money.
Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch
Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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@julian Looks like you were right on the money.
Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch
Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
@altcode@social.vivaldi.net from what I can tell and from the people I've spoken to, the backend migration is the meat and potatoes of it all, and so the front-end would hopefully remain unchanged.
It's one of those huge migrations where if everybody does everything perfectly, nobody will have known anything had happened at all
