Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub
Sarah Perez (via Hacker News):
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others. The news was revealed in response to a Twitter user’s complaint about Mastodon’s complexities. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg — whose company acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019 — suggested the user “come to Tumblr” as the site would soon “add activitypub for interconnect.”
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If Tumblr were to add ActivityPub support, it means users on Mastodon could follow Tumblr users’ posts from their own Mastodon instance — without having to use the Tumblr app. It could also provide Tumblr users with an entry point into the so-called fediverse without having to face some of the complexities that are involved with signing up for Mastodon for the first time.
Previously:
- Migrating From Twitter to Mastodon
- Gab Will Become a Mastodon Fork
- The Way Out
- The Struggle for Twitter Alternatives
Update (2022-11-30): Rui Carmo:
I decided to start keeping track of ActivityPub-related resources and software.
