Side thought: what are they gonna do with content that violates the site’s rules?
For example, knowing Tumblr audience and current rules, many will rush for uncensored NSFW content, and Fedi’s got plenty of that.
i imagine that by “ActivityPub for Tumblr” they mean a buried option in your settings to monodirectionly bridge your blog to ap
migrating my entire dying website to wordpress so I can use a protocol that is not only open source (negating the entire need to migrate to wordpress) but will immediately defederate with anything even vaguely corporate is surely something
expect the entire domain to be hijacked by a supplements Ponzi scheme by the weekend.
Tumblr is owned by Automattic, which runs WordPress.com. Tumblr migrating to WordPress is not a surprise in the slightest.
Is Tumblr still a thing? I thought it died after the christofascists banned porn. I haven’t been back since that day and heard it had died.
Its extremely popular now. Never really died, just became less relevant. Automattic bought it, and matt (nutcase who owns wordpress) said he’d add activitypub support.
I’ve posted photos daily for 2 years now and I’m getting reasonable levels of likes/reposts. Judging from the stuff I’ve heard from other folks, these levels have fallen a lot from the site’s heyday, but there’s still a whole bunch of users. Just a hunch, but I guess the Twitter/Facebook shenanigans probably drove more people back to Tumblr, too.
Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.
I started using it regularly after many previous failed attempts when Twitter died. Same for Pinterest oddly. I use them for similar but distinct things.
I think they might have softened the TOS for that?
They did, frontal nudity and artistic nudity are allowed.
Must have, I still have a porn Tumblr that absolutely sees fresh content
Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.
It’s banned but there’s still a lot of porn on there, lol.
Somehow, porn returned.
Porn finds a way…–Goldblum
kof! kof! lemmynsfw KOF!
Careful, I think you are choking on something.
It’s fine now; I’ve taken a sip from my drink.
Hmmmm 🤔
They brought back tasteful nudity, mostly.
It is sad day
Unlike Threads, I kind of even don’t mind
Tumblr is generally cute, and while we should be on the watch still, I think it could enrich the Fediverse community.
Well, I was thinking the same, but the CEO of the company that currently owns Tumblr recently went on a very strange ego trip burning a lot of bridges and generally making an ass of himself, so I have become more cautious.
Fair!
I don’t care who federates. We can always ban their instance:
They’re wanting threads users to interact with their site.
Man, I remember looking up all sort of fantasy and cyberpunk artwork on Tumblr back in the day. Haven’t been on there in several years though.
This could be awesome in bringing lots of users. In the fediverse we trust them (unlike threads)
I’m surprised it has taken them so long to switch to Wordpress given that they are owned by the same company
They couldn’t log in because of the WP Engine checkbox
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Thats nice to hear. I still have a queue to post every day. The site has its problems but at least the community arent bootlicking nazi assholes. To me its currently a small oasis on the internet.
I didn’t realize they were switching over to WordPress to be honest.
Nobody should be switching TO Wordpress in 2025… or 2023 or 2020 even. But definitely not 2025.
Tumblr ha no choice, WordPress bought it years ago
Technically not WordPress. They were purchased by Automattic, which runs WordPress.com.
While Automattic is among the many companies contributing to the WordPress project, neither it nor WordPress.com are affiliated with the software/project or the WordPress Foundation.
matt’s an ass and all, but the service on the .com does have a decent track record afaik.
No longer after the drama of the last few months. Stay as far away from WordPress as is humanly possible.
The service on the .org is great
Might be, you still shouldn’t build new stuff on there. It’s under the control of a person going through a mental breakdown and lashing out at everyone instead of getting help.
Nah, its Foss. Anyone can fork it
No, it’s not that easy. Matt Mullenweg personally owns the plugin repository and has weaponized it by literally stealing paid plugins from their developers as revenge. You’d have to create an alternative repository for your fork to actually have a healthy ecosystem, but the individual developers are financially disincentivized to follow due to Mullenweg. This makes for a very uncertain future for both the project and the ecosystem - and why risk it, when there are better options?
Tumblr is alive?
It never died. Even with the killing of porn it just kept going. The userbase actively despises the owners and will keep it alive through this hatred. Through all owners.
Yo I forgot about that! Hahaha I kinda forgot about Tumblr completely after they porn drama. I never used it back then or now but I heard about it because of that
Tumblr was sweet, like a newer version of my space… but this 2014 or around then
Some of us never left.
Yeah I never left either. Tumblr was never about porn…
I hope it’s implemented better than Facebook’s version with the ability to see other Fediverse posts in Tumblr and follow right from the app. I always liked Misskey/Starkey because I felt it was the next generation of Tumblr but it would be great to see more Misskey posters in Tumblr.
