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Per The Fediverse Report:

Tumblr has reconfirmed that it is working on connecting to the fediverse. In late 2022, Automatic CEO Matt Mullenweg said that the site was going to add ActivityPub support ‘soon’. Plans changed for Tumblr, including staff layoffs, and for a long time it was unclear if this plan was actually going to happen. In summer 2024, Tumblr announced that they would be working on moving the backend of Tumblr to WordPress. In an AMA this week, the company said that this migration of Tumblr to WordPress means that Tumblr can also use the plugins of WordPress, including the ActivityPub plugin. This means that people will be able to add ActivityPub to their Tumblr blogs. Not much is known about how this would work in practice.

Let’s see. Not holding my breath.

Fediverse Integration via ActivityPub in the News

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The question is: how much money can they spare for integration? 

Decentralization apparently costs money if your site is built around centralized interaction. But, IMO:

  • Smaller sites benefit in the long run because they can focus on taking care of those users who care to use their instance.
  • Larger sites benefit by better moderation of content without as many users complaining about censorship. 

Better to shoot that shot now rather than wait and wither on the vine.