Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub
  • @[email protected]English
    0•5 months ago

    TIL: Tumblr is still alive.

    What’s the point of it just being WordPress though? That’s…odd.

    • Tony BarkEnglish
      1•5 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        Why are you comparing them as if they’re equivalent?? Wordpress is being used as a backend for tumblr

        • Tony BarkEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          I didn’t know. I’m used to the version you self-host, not whatever the service is using.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•5 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?