@Gargron I'm an ex-tumblr engineer and I 100% agree with you... Now, I think Cyle post needs to be contextualized with Tumblr's situation: it wasn't so much about not seeing the value, but about tumblr being in a dire position, with very limited resources, and having to focus the few devs it still has on things that stops it from losing money.

@Gargron #Tumblr is out? They won't proceed with their plans?

@Gargron I dunno, though. If my stats are anything to go by, they probably had way less users than even that.

... I had 3 of the things!

@Gargron et au moins grâce à l'interreaupérabilité des utilisateurs d'autres plateformes peuvent voir ce qu'il s'y passe mais après je me demande comment cela évoluera dans le futur à mon avis Internet sera fragmenté une partie sera interopérable et décentralisée et une autre sera totalement fermée un peu comme mastodonte d'un côté et x.com de l'autre

@Gargron Part of the problem is the words "engineer" and "profit" being so close together. We all love to diss MBAs, but a good business program really can teach people expertise that engineers generally think they have (but don't).

(Ditto doctors.)

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@Gargron They're extinct dinosaurs, Zhenya, and they should have the flag. This is the truth of life, nothing can be done (

@Gargron thought about this too. Pebble believed trust & safety is too difficult on distributed networks, so made an intentional choice to be a centralized network. That was part of their value prop, but it didn't end up working out for them

Many people don't seem to fully grasp just how the fediverse is different from everything that came before it. A question I get frustratingly often is "does Smithereen compete with Mastodon?".

@Gargron @marino I still have a tumblr blog Harps Eclectica but it got ruined when yahoo took them over then saved by Automatic but it never truly got back to itself again I still use the blog also.

@Gargron instant #rfc600 flashback •g• #Plato to the #Moon ;) https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc600.txt 🚀

@Gargron you're preaching the ideals that lead Tim Berners-Lee to create the Web. Thanks for doing what you do!
At some point, we will hopefully find some way to integrate the fediverse into the wider economy without creating yet another surveillance capitalism. That's at least my hope.

@Gargron So true. I hope Tumblr ultimately sticks with the plan to federate.

FTR Flipboard is now approx 70% completed with our federation work and honestly I think it will be great for our users, the broader #fediverse and our business.

Can't wait to federate!

@Gargron I'm really sorry to see #Pebble go. They had a lot of really good ideas, and not enough people to get critical mass. They should just move the domain and user accounts to a Mastodon server and let the community figure out next steps.

@Gargron "too soon," I cry, clutching my chest and trying to connect a pebble to my new phone, failing utterly

@Gargron At this stage, the fediverse's audience is too small to attract established social networks, especially when, like #tumblr, they don't distribute much real-time news.

The #fediverse will take off thanks to the publishers and curators who see #ActivityPub as an "interactive RSS feed" that liberates them from platforms. WordPress and Flipboard can play a key role in this.