Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub
    • vanderbilt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve been second guessing WP deployments as well, but I think the most likely outcome is a community fork once Mullenweg’s brain rot affects commercial interests too much.

    • Tony Bark@pawb.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      They’re completely incompatible systems. Tumblr was always more of a microblog while WordPress is basically a CMS, at this point. The only way to get those two to talk would be to federate, now that I think about it.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ignorant question incoming: Would this result in a huge influx of traffic if your instance federates with tumblr, because you’re federating with all of tumblr? Or do individual tumblr blogs need to federate with each instance?

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think it also depends what software your client is on, mastodon, Lemmy, go-to social, etc. some pull more things than others.

      But in general ActivityPub federation is more “Publish/Subscribe” than “ingest firehose” (a la Bluesky).