Yep, ages ago, and we’ve all been wondering what happened to it. With Threads promising to federate soon, it’s reminded us that we’re not anti-corporation as much as we are anti-Meta, and that we were hopeful not long ago of many not-entirely-evil-companies joining the fediverse. Medium and Mozilla have set some things up, as has flipboard, and tumblr were supposed to be a big addition … that just hasn’t eventuated.
we’re not anti-corporation as much as we are anti-Meta
Agreed. I’d like to see Tumblr join the fediverse, though recently it seems to be focusing on Tumblr Live rather than such a big change as federating. Interesting with Medium as well.
Maybe this says something about my awareness of the world: I didn’t know Threads wasn’t the first.
Both the medium and flipboard CEOs are relatively active on mastodon and seem to be all in on the fediverse. The flipboard app can be even be used as a fediverse app. Don’t know how it works for lemmy or kbin … it’s probably mastodon only.
I wonder if that might also be partially because Tumblr has no control over other instances being ok with (appropriately marked) nsfw content. And of course, since about 2019, Tumblr has been very anti-nsfw…
But also yeah, losing $30 million annually isn’t great. Maybe Tumblr should go all-in on federation though? Like, to the point of encouraging users to leave/offload from Tumblr servers and do federation? Wouldn’t be easy, but if they want a longer then solution…
So that might explain why the promise to federate with the fediverse (made late last year during the twitter migration) hasn’t gone anywhere.
Tumblr said they would federate???
Yep, ages ago, and we’ve all been wondering what happened to it. With Threads promising to federate soon, it’s reminded us that we’re not anti-corporation as much as we are anti-Meta, and that we were hopeful not long ago of many not-entirely-evil-companies joining the fediverse. Medium and Mozilla have set some things up, as has flipboard, and tumblr were supposed to be a big addition … that just hasn’t eventuated.
Thanks for the reply.
Agreed. I’d like to see Tumblr join the fediverse, though recently it seems to be focusing on Tumblr Live rather than such a big change as federating. Interesting with Medium as well.
Maybe this says something about my awareness of the world: I didn’t know Threads wasn’t the first.
Both the medium and flipboard CEOs are relatively active on mastodon and seem to be all in on the fediverse. The flipboard app can be even be used as a fediverse app. Don’t know how it works for lemmy or kbin … it’s probably mastodon only.
I wonder if that might also be partially because Tumblr has no control over other instances being ok with (appropriately marked) nsfw content. And of course, since about 2019, Tumblr has been very anti-nsfw…
But also yeah, losing $30 million annually isn’t great. Maybe Tumblr should go all-in on federation though? Like, to the point of encouraging users to leave/offload from Tumblr servers and do federation? Wouldn’t be easy, but if they want a longer then solution…