TIL: Tumblr is still alive.
What's the point of it just being WordPress though? That's...odd.
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They're completely incompatible systems. Tumblr was always more of a microblog while WordPress is basically a CMS, at this point. The only way to get those two to talk would be to federate, now that I think about it.
Why are you comparing them as if they're equivalent?? Wordpress is being used as a backend for tumblr
I didn't know. I'm used to the version you self-host, not whatever the service is using.
Sorry, I mean why even call it Tumblr if it's just WordPress at this point?
Tumpress
Wordbler
Wordblur; I like that one.
The bird motif is up for grabs, call it Warbler
It’s because tumblr is owned by the company of one of the original wordpress creators.
Yes it is, and my wife is one of two who pays a subscription to it...
Why? All the furries are already here.
Oh trust me there are plenty more that are elsewhere too
Migrating to WordPress now is an interesting choice, considering all the drama they're in right now.
I thought so too but the people who own Tumblr now are the same people causing that drama.
I’ve been second guessing WP deployments as well, but I think the most likely outcome is a community fork once Mullenweg’s brain rot affects commercial interests too much.
If it helps make more sense, WordPress owns tumblr.
They've been talking about this for years, wake me up when they actually do it. Or don't, whatever.
Ignorant question incoming: Would this result in a huge influx of traffic if your instance federates with tumblr, because you’re federating with all of tumblr? Or do individual tumblr blogs need to federate with each instance?
I think it also depends what software your client is on, mastodon, Lemmy, go-to social, etc. some pull more things than others.
But in general ActivityPub federation is more "Publish/Subscribe" than "ingest firehose" (a la Bluesky).
Don't they support video posts?
kagis
Hmm. Apparently so.
https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/posting-video/
It’ll need to be a MOV or MP4 file.
You can post up to 20 videos per day.
A single video can be up to 10 minutes in length.
The video upload size limit is 500 MB per video.
The total video time limit per day is 60 minutes.
Well, it's not an open platform, but I guess it may be a platform with the resources to serve some serious video, and it'll be on the Fediverse.
We have been having a lot of discussions about what it would take to get video on the Fediverse at more than PeerTube scale.
I don't use tumblr, don't know if they provide a video-centric interface, but I imagine that one could always write a software package to index those videos and link to them. Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven't played with it enough to know.
im confused. why would they be migrating to wordpress?
Owned by WordPress. Was purchased for the sole purpose to be migrated to wordpress.
Isn't it run by one of those unhinged tech bros?
How many “hinged” techbros are there?
They must exist on a spectrum.
The "Have I been Pwned" guy seems pretty hinged, but IDK if bro. Perhaps a mensch?
I don't know, I think he's currently beefing with some other person and made a "I am not associated with that guy" check as part of the login process. But I don't remember fully.
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