Why? All the furries are already here.
Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes/
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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 months ago
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh trust me there are plenty more that are elsewhere too
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 2 months ago
Migrating to WordPress now is an interesting choice, considering all the drama they’re in right now.
golden_calf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought so too but the people who own Tumblr now are the same people causing that drama.
vanderbilt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been second guessing WP deployments as well, but I think the most likely outcome is a community fork once Mullenweg’s brain rot affects commercial interests too much.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If it helps make more sense, WordPress owns tumblr.
leadore@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’ve been talking about this for years, wake me up when they actually do it. Or not.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I think it also depends what software your client is on, mastodon, Lemmy, go-to social, etc. some pull more things than others.
But in general ActivityPub federation is more “Publish/Subscribe” than “ingest firehose” (a la Bluesky).
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Don’t they support video posts?
kagis
Hmm. Apparently so.
Well, it’s not an open platform, but I guess it may be a platform with the ability to serve some serious video that’s on the Fediverse.
help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/posting-video/
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It’ll need to be a MOV or MP4 file.
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You can post up to 20 videos per day.
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A single video can be up to 10 minutes in length.
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The video upload size limit is 500 MB per video.
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The total video time limit per day is 60 minutes.
We have been having a lot of discussions about what it would take to get video on the Fediverse.
Emperor@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Now that is Interesting.
I had some thoughts about getting public domain films into the Fediverse but you’d rapidly exhaust the allowance on most instances. However, this might just be the ticket. Time to brush off my Tumblr password…
Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven’t played with it enough to know.
You’d think Peertube would be able to.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
You can check out the pinned post about PeerTube servers (platforms) in this community !peertube@lemmy.wtf
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umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
im confused. why would they be migratibg to wordpress?
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Owned by WordPress. Was purchased for the sole purpose to be migrated to wordpress.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Isn’t it run by one of those unhinged tech bros?
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OMG YEEEEEEEEES
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TIL: Tumblr is still alive.
What’s the point of it just being WordPress though? That’s…odd.
tonytins@pawb.social 2 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.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Why are you comparing them as if they’re equivalent?? Wordpress is being used as a backend for tumblr
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sorry, I mean why even call it Tumblr if it’s just WordPress at this point?
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s because tumblr is owned by the company of one of the original wordpress creators.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes it is, and my wife is one of two who pays a subscription to it…