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.

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[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m surprised it has taken them so long to switch to Wordpress given that they are owned by the same company

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They couldn't log in because of the WP Engine checkbox

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 3 months ago

🍍🍕

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize they were switching over to WordPress to be honest.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nobody should be switching TO Wordpress in 2025… or 2023 or 2020 even. But definitely not 2025.

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 months ago

Tumblr ha no choice, WordPress bought it years ago

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

matt's an ass and all, but the service on the .com does have a decent track record afaik.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

No longer after the drama of the last few months. Stay as far away from WordPress as is humanly possible.

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[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

This could be awesome in bringing lots of users. In the fediverse we trust them (unlike threads)

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Tumblr is alive?

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shadowfax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Tumblr was sweet, like a newer version of my space.. but this 2014 or around then

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some of us never left.

[–] DearMoogle@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I never left either. Tumblr was never about porn...

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] AgentDalePoopster@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.

[–] RamenJunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Now we need an activitypub linkedin

[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Please, no.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Which part of LinkedIn? The social media part? The CV part? The job board part? E-learning?

What would the federated, non-social media parts even look like?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Linkedin getting a social media part is really the proof that enshittyfication is fucking everywhere.

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Don't let your dreams be dreams! I know theres a lot of people have stated they are interested. I'm personally not sure what things you would like displayed to others with activityhub specifically.

[–] RedStrider@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

i imagine that by "ActivityPub for Tumblr" they mean a buried option in your settings to monodirectionly bridge your blog to ap

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

They're wanting threads users to interact with their site.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://wip.tumblr.com/post/773574776721702912/about-a-year-ago-wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 33 points 3 months ago (5 children)

How does that person think ATProto would prevent monopolization? ATProto is effectively controlled by a singular corporate entity. It already is a monopolized protocol.

Bluesky says they created ATProto because account portability is a problem on ActivityPub - which it 100% is. But account porting is something that's still being worked on for ActivityPub. If Bluesky actually cared about a decentralized platform, they would have contributed toward ActivityPub's development by helping to create the account porting tools. Instead, they created a new network that they own and control, and have gaslit their users into believing is "decentralized".

[–] graphito@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago

Just a mention that streams (prev hubzilla) already implemented nomadic identity which solves the problem of account portability

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

There's also other protocols already made, like the one used in Hubzilla which can hande account porting well

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Some platforms have decentralized login wihich is fascinating as a software developer. Works with activityhub too. I think it was one of the gnu projects? I'm not in a good position to do a good search right now.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

You and I know this, but the user who asked probably doesn't know any of that. They just know that BlueSky is the popular new thing, and it claims to be federated, so why not use the more popular thing?

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That'll fix the authwall, then?

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

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.

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