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Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has

So… if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    68·
    2 months ago

    Given how crufty Wordpress is, I don’t even dare to imagine how bad the Tumblr backend must be that this is seen as an improvement by the developers.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      It makes sense.

      Supporting Tumblr backend with patches vs building on top of stable WP and improving it seems like a win win.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    Remember when Verizon paid a billion dollars to ruin Tumblr and get a fraction of that back for it?

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    This could indeed potentially lead to a future with tumblr on the fediverse. I don’t see why not 🤷

    • Corvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Tumblr announced they were gonna integrate with ActivityPub years ago. It’s been silence on the topic since then, hopefully this move to Wordpress is a step towards joining the Fediverse.

      The link to the original TechCrunch article doesn’t seem to be working, but here’s a mirror on Slashdot: https://m.slashdot.org/story/407458

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Wordpress federation is pretty one directional, you can follow a blog from mastodon, but you can’t use your blog to follow other people.

    • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I understood you could, with the friends plugin:

      If you also have the ActivityPub plugin installed, you can follow people on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible social networks.

      • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Interesting, I didn’t realise that.

        However I assume they will be migrating them to wordpress.com, which is their proprietary hosted solution, as opposed to wordpress.org, which is the open source software. Plugins don’t work on wordpress.com free accounts, only paid ones. I believe outward federation is integrated into .com though.

      • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        By being moved to the main Wordpress branch, where everything has been known to be hackable since 1999, rather than staying in Tumbr’s however-modified branch where probably some exploits don’t work or have unexpected results.