{"id":37733,"date":"2022-11-25T16:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37733"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:51:49","slug":"tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/25\/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/11\/21\/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps\/\">Sarah Perez<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33716429\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/11\/21\/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps\/\"><p>Tumblr will add support for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ActivityPub\">ActivityPub<\/a>, the open, decentralized social networking <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.joinmastodon.org\/spec\/activitypub\/\">protocol<\/a> that today is powering social networking software like <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/11\/07\/boosted-by-twitter-drama-mastodon-reaches-1-million-active-monthly-users\/\">Twitter alternative Mastodon<\/a>, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others. The news was revealed in response to a Twitter user&rsquo;s complaint about Mastodon&rsquo;s complexities. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg &mdash; whose company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/08\/12\/verizon-is-selling-tumblr-to-wordpress-parent-automattic\/\">acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/photomatt\/status\/1594577983028740096?s=20&amp;t=475MtG5hIWOKgfpIQPzQlw\">suggested<\/a> the user &ldquo;come to Tumblr&rdquo; as the site would soon &ldquo;add activitypub for interconnect.&rdquo;<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If Tumblr were to add ActivityPub support, it means users on Mastodon could follow Tumblr users&rsquo; posts from their own Mastodon instance &mdash; without having to use the Tumblr app. It could also provide Tumblr users with an entry point into the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fediverse\">fediverse<\/a> without having to face some of the complexities that are involved with <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/11\/08\/what-is-mastodon\/\">signing up for Mastodon<\/a> for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/08\/migrating-from-twitter-to-mastodon\/\">Migrating From Twitter to Mastodon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/gab-will-become-a-mastodon-fork\/\">Gab Will Become a Mastodon Fork<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/the-way-out\/\">The Way Out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/the-struggle-for-twitter-alternatives\/\">The Struggle for Twitter Alternatives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-update-2022-11-30\">Update (2022-11-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/protocols\/activitypub\">Rui Carmo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/protocols\/activitypub\">\n<p>I decided to start keeping track of ActivityPub-related resources and software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;s complaint about Mastodon&rsquo;s complexities. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-25T21:09:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"f8c8be73-0c01-46b6-a149-c9d95b088010","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-13T15:51:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-Mi-cwwBRrahScnZWwiAEA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2430,1718,457,96,50],"class_list":["post-37733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-activitypub","tag-mastodon","tag-tumblr","tag-web","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37772,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions\/37772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}