@tchambers very interesting. I might have switched to Tumblr if I'd known that... Actually maybe not, as I've wanted to join Mastodon for a while anyway 😅 but hopefully it'll mean I can follow people who made the move there rather than here!

@tchambers It. Is. Happening. WordPress also has ActivityPub in beta (as a plugin). Hopefully they will move fast on making that official and maybe adding to Core.

@tchambers Next is #Twitter? 😀 And then social market monopoly again (with Jack and Zuck)? No way...

@tchambers Still won't go back onto Tumblr. I do not forget "Female presenting nipples" ban, as well as trying to use an algorithm to sus out NSFW art and tagged everything BUT.

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@tchambers Who (TF) is Matt Mullenweg and his relationship with tumblr ?

@tchambers Awesome. Just awesome!

@tchambers@indieweb.social Might this be the break through of a decentralized social media? Tumblr joining the fediverse would be a massive increase in users.

@tchambers That's amusing, in a way. They were the last wave before the current one!

@tchambers That is good. I have had a tumblog for years but it have been inactive for a long time. I recently went back and had forgotten it would cross post to Twitter but nothing else.

@tchambers Yay, Tumblr, the place -- the place where young teens that I know found all the "great" content on how to self-harm, cultivate eating disorders, and craft suicide notes.
That will be a really fun moderation situation for the fediverse.
Just sayin'

@tchambers wut? once had thought ( yet before fedi ) to go there o.O

@tchambers Some of my friends went to tumblr, so that is definitely going to be useful for me :D

@tchambers that is pretty cool. Curieus to see how _ASAP_ they can do that.

@tchambers not a good news if they start overflowing instances with requests

@tchambers any idea on whether this will have an effect on existing server load/queues/etc? That's a lot of new content and users to potentially federate with.

@tchambers It's happeniiiiiing :ablobcatbongo: :blobrainbow: :rainbowdance:

@tchambers @freeplay this is for you

@tchambers I've been trying to find Matt out here and he's just not showing up! Now i know why!

@tchambers Automattic are great 👍

@tchambers not sure if this is Microsofts embrace and extinguish playbook

@tchambers that would be kinda cool

@tchambers Wow, that sounds big!

@tchambers This is a BIG fucking deal! That's a whole lot of users and art that will suddenly be accessible to the Fediverse. Also, a whole lot of people who aren't sure about Mastodon but already have Tumblr accounts will suddenly have an entry point.

@tchambers ...wait, does that mean that mastodon users will be able to natively follow tumblr blogs, or that they're making their own instance for tumblr users, or..?

@tchambers
A 3rd party comparison from #uMatrix below is showing, why tumblr isn't all too interesting in terms of using it - activity.pub or not. Mastodon seems to run no 3rd party connection sin background, respectively no 3rd party tracking either.
tumblr then, oh well, that's the usual story: "if you aren't the client you are the product".

@tchambers Even more of a shrewd move than when Tumblr started undercutting the competition by offering *two* checkmarks for $8.

@tchambers is this legit? Holy shit 😍😍😍

@tchambers wait what?

@tchambers not sure if this will be a good thing...

@tchambers I wonder how much that will do since #Tumblr isn't #foss and the ecosystem around is pretty much dead.

@tchambers I’m both excited and terrified haha

@tchambers oh no

@tchambers

This is amazing, now tell him to get WordPress comments and other features to integrate with activity pub as well and I can connect all my social media and inter-share.

That is the future of my dreams.

@tchambers It's going to be very interesting to see how instance admins who defederate from mastodon.social because it's "too big" would handle Tumblr with its 300 mil MAU federating