Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress | TechCrunch
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Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has

So… if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮

  • SorteKaninAEnglish
    261·
    16 days ago

    This could indeed potentially lead to a future with tumblr on the fediverse. I don’t see why not 🤷

    • Corvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      16 days ago

      Tumblr announced they were gonna integrate with ActivityPub years ago. It’s been silence on the topic since then, hopefully this move to Wordpress is a step towards joining the Fediverse.

      The link to the original TechCrunch article doesn’t seem to be working, but here’s a mirror on Slashdot: https://m.slashdot.org/story/407458

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      The question is whether or not Tumblr users would want such a thing.

      I feel like the same thing will happen like when WordPress introduced a (bad) TikTok/streaming clone called Tumblr Live. I think less than 10% of the userbase ever interacted with it, most of the community openly hated it, and the people who did use it largely didn’t use Tumblr themselves.

      I could see Tumblr users actively finding a way to defederate their blogs from everything Fediverse related.