Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’ (www.theverge.com)
from misk@sopuli.xyz to fediverse@lemmy.world on 30 Jun 16:11
https://sopuli.xyz/post/29677515

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froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 30 Jun 16:24 next collapse

sad :(

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 30 Jun 16:25 next collapse

At this point I’m convinced that the Fediverse integration is just a means of marketing for them. Everyone should boycott the cockteasing bastards.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Jun 16:33 next collapse

Yeah their plans have been on and off for years now. Just ignore anything they say.

limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jun 16:41 collapse

I’m not sure of what I’m talking about exactly, but I vaguely suspect that integrating with the fediverse will make some of their less ethical practices at tumbler too transparent and obvious.

But that is one part hunch and one part cynical belief, I don’t know of the details

[deleted] on 30 Jun 16:50 collapse

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MudMan@fedia.io on 30 Jun 17:07 collapse

I am more surprised than I should be at how quickly the Fedi pitch went from "we want a future where everything is interoperable everywhere" to "we don't want any interaction with for profit companies".

I don't mind either way, it's all bad and I shouldn't be here in the first place, but... you know, it's weird seeing social patterns develop in real time.

skrlet13@feddit.cl on 30 Jun 18:09 next collapse

Fedi is not homogeneus. Each server interacts with who it wants. You could say multiple fedis exist at the same time, and both pitches represent different people.

MudMan@fedia.io on 30 Jun 18:21 collapse

Yeah, well, don't tell them. The fields of Mastodon are still full of the debris of the Great Threads Arguments. Seemed to me everybody thought they had the correct and only Fedi.

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MudMan@fedia.io on 01 Jul 17:46 next collapse

Cool.

But the pitch wasn't "everything will be interoperable unless the company doesn't mean it or wants to make money or we aren't "morally aligned", whatever that means".

I don't understand how you can be a "walled garden" and still feature interoperability with a set of open source platforms under a pre-established set protocol. This is not an ethical problem or a problem of ideology, those two things are mutually exclusive.

This also sounds a whole lot like it disproves skrlet13's point on the heterogeneous Fedi where everything fits under different but overlapping bubbles. Seems to me you think Fedi has the one moral and ethical position on this.

JayGray91@piefed.social on 02 Jul 04:28 collapse

[bluesky] is already engaging in Blue Checks(tm)

Isn't this good, to make sure whoever the account is, is the genuine person? Or is it bad because the arbiter of said genuineness is bluesky, and I assume there's a payment for it?

cm0002@lemmy.world on 30 Jun 17:05 next collapse

“I still want to do it, but I was just informed there’s…PORN ON THERE GASP !” ~Tumblr CEO, probably

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Lumidaub@feddit.org on 30 Jun 18:50 collapse

They did want it to be the new PDF.

Gullible@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jun 17:23 next collapse

Damn, where am I going to find unhinged opinions in wafer-thin niches within wafer-thin niches. Fursuit tax advocacy needs broader awareness

RandAlThor@lemmy.ca on 30 Jun 18:18 next collapse

Might be a sign fediverse isn’t gaining momentum.

jlow@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Jun 18:38 next collapse

Or might be a sign that capitalists wanna keep on siloing their networks once the hype has cooled down.

NickwithaC@lemmy.world on 30 Jun 20:13 next collapse

Or that Tumblr is Tumblr…

matcha_addict@lemy.lol on 30 Jun 22:26 next collapse

It’s just less hyped now compared to days of reddit API change and Twitter going to Elon Musk.

Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone on 01 Jul 00:18 next collapse

Might be because they're down to 25 staff members

The_Decryptor@aussie.zone on 01 Jul 00:19 collapse

Or Automattic doesn’t have enough employees left to implement it

sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jun 18:28 next collapse

thank god

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 30 Jun 21:23 next collapse

If this happens, does this mean I have to see tumblr posts on Lemmy?

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 01 Jul 01:21 collapse

If you subscribe to someone on tumblr then yes. Otherwise i dont think so.

Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jun 21:51 next collapse

Alternative title: Tumblr tumbles

a_cuddly_fox@lemmy.today on 30 Jun 22:36 collapse

Again?

kyonshi@piefed.social on 30 Jun 23:57 next collapse

No shit. AFAIK Tumblr us circling the drain as it is and barely able to keep the lights on

Etterra@discuss.online on 01 Jul 01:27 collapse

What’s the point of being “advertiser friendly” of everyone leaves because of it.

JayGray91@piefed.social on 02 Jul 04:30 collapse

It makes shareholders feel a simulacra of emotion for a brief moment.

ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 00:25 next collapse

Without porn tumblr is shit

gofsckyourself@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 02:44 next collapse

Fuck Tumblr. Fuck WordPress. Fuck Automattic. And fuck Matt.

Tumblr has some interesting content from users, but the platform is awful and it’s even worse since Automattic bought it. Also, the trend to put the entire contents of the post in hashtags is flat-out stupid and infuriating.

Automatic is a tremendously terrible company, and Matt is an egotistical pile of garbage.

[deleted] on 01 Jul 03:22 collapse

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