Tumblr just confirmed (again) that it will be enabling ActivityPub

Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.
- It's banned but there's still a lot of porn on there, lol.
- They brought back tasteful nudity, mostly.
- It is sad day

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.

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!

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

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

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

Nobody should be switching TO Wordpress in 2025… or 2023 or 2020 even. But definitely not 2025.
- Tumblr ha no choice, WordPress bought it years ago
- matt's an ass and all, but the service on the .com does have a decent track record afaik.

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

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.

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.

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

Tumblr is alive?

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
Some of us never left.
- Yeah I never left either. Tumblr was never about porn...

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.

Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.
I think they might have softened the TOS for that?
- Must have, I still have a porn Tumblr that absolutely sees fresh content
- They did, frontal nudity and artistic nudity are allowed.
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.
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.
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 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.

Now we need an activitypub linkedin

Please, no.
For what it's worth, I don't understand why anyone needs any linkedin.
- 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 onlyfan 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?
- 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.
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
- Linkedin getting a social media part is really the proof that enshittyfication is fucking everywhere.
- 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.
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.

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

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.

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

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

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".
- Just a mention that streams (prev hubzilla) already implemented nomadic identity which solves the problem of account portability
- There's also other protocols already made, like the one used in Hubzilla which can hande account porting well
- 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.
- 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?
- 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]