I’ll believe it when I see it
Tumblr to join fediverse
Submitted 3 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/113986978126618949
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yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Why did you link to a Mastodon post and not the actual article?
Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
The article seems well-written, except that:
the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.
Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we’re like “and others” lel… I guess they didn’t mention Pixelfed either tho and it’s a lot “hotter”…
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.
The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Flipboard is how you can federate BBC and a bunch of legit news networks. They’re pretty important imho
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
One thing at least is that when you search “Reddit alternatives”, most articles that I came across seemed to make out like Lemmy is the best option in terms of amount of users and not being advertised explicitly as a “free speech and censorship free platform”, which we all know really means “bigots are welcome here.” In fact when I was searching Reddit alternatives, it seemed to me that Lemmy is really the only option.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
As long as the NSFW comes over
Krompus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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quokka1@mastodon.au 3 months ago
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ICastFist@programming.dev 3 months ago
I thought tumblr’s porn part never recovered after the 2018 purge
b3an@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wow, way to try staying relevant I guess? They had a huge following and the porn was flowing during the good times. They blew their chance and now it’s a shell of itself. Fuck Tumblr.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
of all platforms I didn’t expect the hellsite to federate.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 months ago
They’ve been recently bought by Automattic (WordPress), so this doesn’t surprise me. I wouldn’t have expected it if they were still owned by their previous owner though.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We’re gonna need a blocking button.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
God I hope my instance defederates with them.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why? Tumblr is terrible, but in a good way.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because Automattic owns Tumblr and is run by a douchebag transphobe that is also destroying WordPress. (Though, to be fair WordPress is fucking trash)
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tumblr is terrible
Stay terrible fam.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
No, tumblr is terrible in a ‘hyperventilating gaslighting cliques of pretentious elitist malignant narcissists acting like cult leaders and followers’ way.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You could just block them yourself if you don’t like leftist spaces that much
m_f@discuss.online 3 months ago
Tumblr doesn’t really strike me as leftist, so much as having a low signal:noise ratio
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
What’s wrong?
Tumblr on fediverse by default will increase variation of community in fediverse. Especially, fediverse right now is still mainly filled with American or European related topics.
maplebar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Instead of “hoping your instance” does something, just make your own instance. That’s the whole idea.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Or just don’t follow anyone there? Nobody is forcing you to read posts on any federated instance. I am shocked by the kind of egocentrism that leads you to think that if you don’t like people on a given instance, you should prevent everyone else on your instance from interacting with them.
Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Oh you mean the one run by a conservative who’s a massive bigot? Greaaaaat.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
As long as there’s no toxic behaviour from them, I’m more than OK with this
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I welcome our colon three posting brothers and sisters
genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
ε:
serpentineminor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
some of us are already here :3
slinkyjelly@lemm.ee 3 months ago
how do you link pixelhub and lemmy to tumblr
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 months ago
For a long time I thought tumblr was Pinterest.
What the heck is tumblr? I dont think ive ever done an image search that lead me to that site.
cheers_queers@lemm.ee 3 months ago
it’s an old microblogging platform, was popular around Myspace era but still has a decent base. it’s mostly fandom stuff, art and porn… i personally like following artists on there
slinkyjelly@lemm.ee 3 months ago
wasn’t the porn banned a few years ago
jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tumblr was a lot of fun. Yes it is a microblogging platform, but that doesn’t explain what the appeal was. I have no idea what the appeal is today as I left in 2015.
People would share text or image or links of things they liked, and if you reblogged it (shared to your own blog) the comment you added would be retained when someone reblogged your reblog, creating lusicrous chains of conversations that people would build and build on. They evwntually became unreadable because they got squashed into one line. There was no way to comment without reblogging.
Tumblr predates influencer culture, and tumblr celebrities were not really a thing (except for maybe @pizza by accident being tagged everywhere).
You also had a tag system, where you added hashtags to reblogs that were searchable. This way you would find topics you liked, ans blogs.
The blogs had custom CSS, with graphics and music playing but less free for all than MySpace. This made some blogs into minor art pieces, along with the things they reblogged.
For me the initial appeal was high def images. Instagram had not taken off, and so finding consisten high quality images of art, nature, sub culture and pop culture imagery or artists, porn etc. was not as obvious as it is today.
I loved tumblr but eventually got bored. Eventually they killed custom CSS and porn, and basically made tumblr worthless for anyone who wasn’t into fandoms (/s but kind of not. I have no idea what happens on tumblr today).
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 months ago
That sounds like twitter with myspace
Ougie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You are not alone there
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can anyone eli5?
Will it federate with AP platforms?
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 months ago
It will federate with other AP platforms.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh hellsite
straightjorkin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe if they did something about their porn bot problem I’d be happier to see this
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
There’s assist always the block button.
What an amazing concept right?
straightjorkin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I will applaud tumblr for having a good block button. But it doesn’t solve the porn bot problem.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 3 months ago
Please no
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is it still the same SJW hellhole it was a decade ago?
Whateley@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lol, people are still using SJW as a snarl world in 2025?
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 3 months ago
I mean, come on people, it’s current year, not past year.
earthman@my-place.social 3 months ago
@Whateley @FlashMobOfOne now expressing any kind of empathy = "white knighting"
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
As with the fediverse, there are a lot of user curated blacklists to get rid of the problem children.
Just don’t trust shinigamieyes, that shit got taken over by terfs a few years back and now lists a lot of innocent trans bloggers.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
thebadspace has no real rhyme or reason either and lists a lot of folks I think are fine, and also gives (almost) no reason or receipts.
Kayday@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wait, what? That’s disappointing. I use Shinigamieyes, haven’t noticed anything weird yet.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Neocities is Tumblr if it were worth anyone’s time.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
No support for user post though…
That means nothing to federate.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Unfortunately ActivityPub does not work with static websites.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I’ve been on Tumblr since the David Karp days and I’ll be there for the rest of my life.
MITM0@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nooooooooooooo
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m sure I’ve read this headline before and nothing came of it then.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, they’ve been talking about this for years now.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 months ago
With all the decades of poorly made freshman intern tier spaghetti code Tumblr is built on it’s no surprise adding anything takes a long time.