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Kirk@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Still not fully integrated, but it’s nice to see broader ActiviyPub adoption beyond “follow a handful of users who opted-in”. I never expected Meta to be the company inching towards federation and not bluesky. Makes me wonder if Tumblr will ever follow through with their promises to federate.
Tumblr is being reworked to have a Wordpress backend right now, and Wordpress already has well working ActivityPub support, so yes, Tumblr will very likely happen once they made the switch.
I suspect the technical debt in Tumblr was larger than expected when the first announce federation support, and now it became nearly a full rewrite, which takes time.
Tumblr also downsized to 25 employees (including T&S). I don’t expect anything groudbreaking from them soon.
Got it, very interesting! I look forward to it being worked out soon, Wordpress federation is awesome.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nahhh, Meta sucks ass and will screw you over in a heartbeat. What’s in it for them is the question.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Data. User data. Always has been.
FB right now is probably 90% bots and AI. The Fediverse isn’t—for the moment being. I’m sure they found a way to tap into it by keeping a door open while pretending to help aerate the room.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They also want to control the headlines that make it to the front page like other major instances do.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Oh yes you’re right—forgot about that
kobra@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
But what data would federating give them that they couldn’t just get on the public internet right now? They could already scrape all of this from mastodon already if data was all that they’re after.
It’s not just data they’re after.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
They also learn how their users interact with it.