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
They’re wanting threads users to interact with their site.
migrating my entire dying website to wordpress so I can use a protocol that is not only open source 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.
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.
Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.
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
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.
That’ll fix the authwall, then?
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.
This could be awesome in bringing lots of users. In the fediverse we trust them (unlike threads)
Tumblr is alive?
Some of us never left.
Yeah I never left either. Tumblr was never about porn…
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
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.
Now we need an activitypub linkedin
Please, no.
For what it’s worth, I don’t understand why anyone needs any linkedin.
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.
It’s the only way you can reach a recruiter. They are always on there. Sometimes you need to play the corporate game
What? Its great for osint
Corpo drones must keep a page up similar to an oblyfan model.
Got to keep daddy thristy for that sweet labour.
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?
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?
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.
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…
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.
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.
Linkedin getting a social media part is really the proof that enshittyfication is fucking everywhere.
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.
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.
I don’t care who federates. We can always ban their instance:
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!
Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.
It is sad day
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.
