I’m surprised it has taken them so long to switch to Wordpress given that they are owned by the same company
They couldn’t log in because of the WP Engine checkbox
I didn’t realize they were switching over to WordPress to be honest.
Thats nice to hear. I still have a queue to post every day. The site has its problems but at least the community arent bootlicking nazi assholes. To me its currently a small oasis on the internet.
This could be awesome in bringing lots of users. In the fediverse we trust them (unlike threads)
Is Tumblr still a thing? I thought it died after the christofascists banned porn. I haven’t been back since that day and heard it had died.
I think they might have softened the TOS for that?
Must have, I still have a porn Tumblr that absolutely sees fresh content
Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.
I started using it regularly after many previous failed attempts when Twitter died. Same for Pinterest oddly. I use them for similar but distinct things.
I’ve posted photos daily for 2 years now and I’m getting reasonable levels of likes/reposts. Judging from the stuff I’ve heard from other folks, these levels have fallen a lot from the site’s heyday, but there’s still a whole bunch of users. Just a hunch, but I guess the Twitter/Facebook shenanigans probably drove more people back to Tumblr, too.
migrating my entire dying website to wordpress so I can use a protocol that is not only open source (negating the entire need to migrate to wordpress) but will immediately defederate with anything even vaguely corporate is surely something
expect the entire domain to be hijacked by a supplements Ponzi scheme by the weekend.
Man, I remember looking up all sort of fantasy and cyberpunk artwork on Tumblr back in the day. Haven’t been on there in several years though.
i imagine that by “ActivityPub for Tumblr” they mean a buried option in your settings to monodirectionly bridge your blog to ap
