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Jeff Sikes

After a long silence, Tumblr confirms it is still planning to join the fediverse.

> The migration is still a work in progress, as we’ve previously detailed here, but we can say for sure that it will include support for WordPress’s existing ActivityPub plugins. We hope this comes as good news.

@box464 Hard to get excited with everything that's been going on around Automattic, but interesting news nonetheless!

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @box464@mastodon.social it doesn't sound like they're going to support ActivityPub, it sounds like they're developing a purpose-built migrator to go from Tumblr to WordPress, at which point the AP plugin would do the heavy lifting.

@julian yeah, it reads to me the same way: "good news everybody, we're going to murder Tumblr, dress up some WordPress blogs in its clothing, and claim a win because it'll be visible in the fediverse!"

@womble So, in layman's terms, they're migrating all Tumblr blogs to WordPress, and since WordPress can already connect to the Fediverse, they can say it's Fediverse compatible after that?

@pengilly yes, that's my interpretation of that post.

@womble @julian if the tumblr migration to a Wordpress backend actually happens (doubt), it won't be smooth. I suspect Mullenweg is finally going to ruin the site for good, which pains me because it's the only for-profit social network I've ever loved.

I really hope we get a viable ActivtyPub workalike with enough of the same UX at some point. I've wanted to build one for years but have been preoccupied with surviving.

@altcode@social.vivaldi.net from what I can tell and from the people I've spoken to, the backend migration is the meat and potatoes of it all, and so the front-end would hopefully remain unchanged.

It's one of those huge migrations where if everybody does everything perfectly, nobody will have known anything had happened at all 😁

@box464 It will be interesting to see how they implement this. I wonder if a bunch of old posts from the 2010 era would suddenly make a comeback. Tumblr does have a lot of content, sadly some of it already lost forever.

@box464 Bruh tumblr on the fedi would be so good 😍

Interesting. So, if I am understanding correctly, instead of adding ActivityPub to the existing Tumblr codebase, they are converting Tumblr to a WordPress codebase (probably so it is easier to maintain) and then would use the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin to connect to the Fediverse. That would explain why it is taking so long.

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@box464 Funny how he ignores the ATProto/Bluesky part of the question, lol.

@frumble @box464 I was just going to comment on that point...lol.

@Maxi 10x 💉 There is movement towards a multi-protocol fediverse, so we may see more platforms support multiple protocols, or at least support bridges like Bridgy Fed. I would not be surprised if they wind up supporting both ActivityPub and AT Protocol at some point.