Gregory's ServerOK who can help take Matt Mullenweg up on his offer to bring #Tumblr up to full #indieweb standards? cc: @humanetech
Not a joke: this is a very real opportunity... #openweb
Tim Chambers
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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
Indeed they should. #Fediverse here's an opportunity for some #IndieWeb and #ActivityPub progress to the #Tumblr that you may use. For those who don't know Matt Mullenweg. He's founding developer of #WordPress (Watch out.. Matt somehow crammed 12 trackers on that page ;)
Bob Collins
@humanetech @louisrcouture @tchambers
smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
@BobCollins @louisrcouture @tchambers Indeed. In fact Privacy Badger was the tool that informed me on the tracker count. I use it in conjunction with uBlock Origin and some native Firefox features to get an ad-free web experience. 
Lutin Discret
@humanetech @BobCollins @louisrcouture @tchambers Please, stop recommending #PrivacyBadger as it's no longer relevant https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother=
smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
@lutindiscret @BobCollins @louisrcouture @tchambers I'd recommend it, but in combination with other blockers (in particular uBlock), as I mentioned above. Privacy badger is the only one that shows me a clear count of trackers directly in the toolbar and a nice list of those and what it blocks in the dropdown. 
Julian Andres Klode 🏳️🌈
@lutindiscret @humanetech @BobCollins @louisrcouture @tchambers almost nobody in the real world uses Firefox so it's very much relevant.
Andrea Lazzarotto
@humanetech @louisrcouture @tchambers not really surprising... If you see how WP.com implements privacy. Everything hosted in the US, emojis loaded from a third party domain, Google Fonts, Gravatar and so on... I had to migrate from the aforementioned SaaS service to respect EU law.  
Johan Bové
@humanetech @tchambers Thanks. That guide helped me a long way to initially get started, so should be helpful for whoever will indiewebify Tumblr.  
echo ✨
I'm really interested in integrating Tumblr into open source standards, but I'm having trouble picturing how that would work effectively. Has there been cases of monolithic platforms having an effective integration? Does content flow into Tumblr on a per-blog/inbox basis? If any web engineers want to collab I'd be delighted to talk! I work at Tumblr and am already thinking about how to do this, but lack experience.
Will 💜
@chaosexanima @tchambers @humanetech Element's acquisition of Gitter and the subsequent integration of Gitter into the Matrix ecosystem is a somewhat analogous case study: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/07/gitter-now-speaks-matrix
echo ✨
@Skirmisher @tchambers @humanetech yeah, my thoughts are around the idea of a bridge. Tumblr already has a pretty robust public API, it would just need a mapping of Fediverse concepts to Tumblr-specific processes. 
django
@chaosexanima ActivityPub is what allows mastodon servers to federate with one another, as well as with other software such as @pixelfed, @peertube, @bookwyrm, etc. The w3c spec reached CR in 2018, but development continues through extensions via FEPs on https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/standards/fep/54 and in other discussions
Topaz, Gem Coyote
@tchambers Wish this had an image description! It won't load for us (our network is crap right now). 
Unattributed 👤 ☑
@tchambers @humanetech Well, guess I closed my #Tumblr account too soon. :) I wonder if someone could convince Matt to also add ActivityStream & WebMention to the core of #WordPress. I know there's the plugin, but I think there might be advantages to building it in directly, plus they are still supporting Blog Ping services, would be nice to see that updated.
L. Rhodes
@tchambers Oh wow. I just dusted off my old tumblr account, too, so this timing couldn't be better. |
@tchambers @humanetech they should start federating too.