Tumblr just confirmed (again) that it will be enabling ActivityPub (atomicpoet.org)
from mesamunefire@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 05:17
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mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 05:30 next collapse

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

thejml@lemm.ee on 25 Jan 05:45 collapse

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

adarza@lemmy.ca on 25 Jan 06:00 next collapse

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

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 06:41 collapse

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

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 25 Jan 17:46 collapse

The service on the .org is great

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 18:16 collapse

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.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 25 Jan 21:52 collapse

Nah, its Foss. Anyone can fork it

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 22:33 collapse

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?

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 26 Jan 04:09 collapse

Wtf is a better option?

DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca on 25 Jan 07:23 collapse

Tumblr ha no choice, WordPress bought it years ago

octoblade@lemmynsfw.com on 26 Jan 19:09 collapse

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.

Aurelius@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 05:45 next collapse

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 on 25 Jan 06:40 collapse

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

haverholm@kbin.earth on 25 Jan 10:47 collapse

🍍🍕

Nougat@fedia.io on 25 Jan 05:45 next collapse

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

Chozo@fedia.io on 25 Jan 05:59 collapse

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".

AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 06:44 next collapse

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

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 07:12 next collapse

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.

graphito@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jan 07:27 next collapse

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

haverholm@kbin.earth on 25 Jan 10:46 next collapse

The support response to that question hilariously dodges any mention of AT Proto and just cheers for ActivityPub.

"Mom, can we have Blooski?"

"We have Blooski at home."

[image of cupboard stocked with ActivityPub branded cereal]

missingno@fedia.io on 25 Jan 11:54 collapse

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?

Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 06:07 next collapse

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 25 Jan 06:47 collapse

Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.

DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca on 25 Jan 07:22 next collapse

They brought back tasteful nudity, mostly.

DrSlippyNips@eviltoast.org on 25 Jan 08:58 next collapse

It’s banned but there’s still a lot of porn on there, lol.

ekZepp@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 20:20 next collapse

kof! kof! lemmynsfw KOF!

Emperor@feddit.uk on 25 Jan 21:51 collapse

Careful, I think you are choking on something.

ekZepp@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 00:13 collapse

It’s fine now; I’ve taken a sip from my drink.

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Emperor@feddit.uk on 26 Jan 02:20 collapse

Hmmmm 🤔

Emperor@feddit.uk on 25 Jan 21:51 collapse

Somehow, porn returned.

Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jan 00:19 collapse

Porn finds a way…–Goldblum

Shardikprime@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 04:09 collapse
Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 00:50 collapse

It is sad day

Allero@lemmy.today on 25 Jan 06:29 next collapse

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.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 25 Jan 13:15 next collapse

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.

Allero@lemmy.today on 25 Jan 22:35 collapse

Fair!

artificialfish@programming.dev on 25 Jan 13:52 collapse

I don’t care who federates. We can always ban their instance:

cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 Jan 07:19 next collapse

Now we need an activitypub linkedin

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 07:21 next collapse

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.

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 25 Jan 07:36 next collapse

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 on 25 Jan 09:34 next collapse

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

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 25 Jan 17:48 collapse

The profiles. You know, the place where I can get the list of people who work for a company and what they do and then email them directly when the company fucked something up and support has failed me.

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 26 Jan 11:15 collapse

Would you want to get such a message after you or someone inf your company fucks up? I don’t think that’s what the goal of a job profile is…

Anti Commercial-AI license

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 26 Jan 15:22 collapse

Yes. If customer support doesn’t understand that there is a vulnerability on the website, then I would definitely want to know about it

I’ve emailed CISOs directly this way, who have thanked me.

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 26 Jan 20:30 collapse

That case makes sense does make sense. I’m concerned about abuse however. Imagine if you worked for a game company as a dev, put your profile on the fediverse and angry idiots started sending you complaints, spam, or worse. That would drive people away.

On LinkedIn there’s some semblance of professionalism in messages (yes I know of the crazies on LinkedIn). Making profiles publicly available to multiple servers will require proper guardrails to prevent abuse and spam.

Anti Commercial-AI license

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 27 Jan 00:36 collapse

I dont message them on likedin. I email them off site.

All I need is their first and last name.

comfy@lemmy.ml on 25 Jan 09:12 next collapse

For what it’s worth, I don’t understand why anyone needs any linkedin.

gigachad@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jan 13:01 next collapse

It’s in fact the only social media I have. Nobody wants my visiting cards anymore, it’s always “do you have linked in”. In the years I have LinkedIn, it actually didn’t gave me anything ever. Why the fuck do I use LinkedIn?

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 25 Jan 14:24 next collapse

Corpo drones must keep a page up similar to an onlyfan model.

Got to keep daddy thristy for that sweet labour.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 25 Jan 17:47 next collapse

What? Its great for osint

dumples@midwest.social on 25 Jan 23:31 next collapse

It’s the only way you can reach a recruiter. They are always on there. Sometimes you need to play the corporate game

RamenJunkie@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 04:21 collapse

They added some pretty cool daily puzzle games last year. I have been using it for those, and only those. I really dif the Queens game, I couldn’t find a version of it to play elsewhere.

ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 09:29 collapse

Please, no.

PieMePlenty@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 09:42 next collapse

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 on 25 Jan 10:18 next collapse

Tumblr is alive?

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 12:02 next collapse

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 on 25 Jan 13:57 collapse

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 on 26 Jan 01:45 collapse

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

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jan 12:29 collapse

Some of us never left.

DearMoogle@lemmy.today on 26 Jan 03:29 collapse

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

Krafting@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 11:12 next collapse

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

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jan 12:32 next collapse

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.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 25 Jan 17:45 next collapse

That’ll fix the authwall, then?

lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Jan 03:12 collapse

[anakin smiling]

ekZepp@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 20:18 next collapse

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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jan 21:51 next collapse

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.

MapleEngineer@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 22:18 next collapse

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.

merthyr1831@lemmy.ml on 25 Jan 22:24 next collapse

I think they might have softened the TOS for that?

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Jan 03:59 next collapse

Must have, I still have a porn Tumblr that absolutely sees fresh content

Irelephant@lemm.ee on 26 Jan 20:27 collapse

They did, frontal nudity and artistic nudity are allowed.

AgentDalePoopster@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 03:45 next collapse

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

RamenJunkie@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 04:18 next collapse

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 on 26 Jan 19:58 next collapse

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 on 26 Jan 20:27 collapse

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.

merthyr1831@lemmy.ml on 25 Jan 22:25 next collapse

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.

octoblade@lemmynsfw.com on 26 Jan 19:03 collapse

Tumblr is owned by Automattic, which runs WordPress.com. Tumblr migrating to WordPress is not a surprise in the slightest.

GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jan 01:34 next collapse

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

RedStrider@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 18:25 next collapse

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

Allero@lemmy.today on 27 Jan 07:35 collapse

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.