• ominouslemon@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Matt Millenweg seems to be a genuinely great guy, and usually seems to be a supporter of the open web. Let’s hope he comes through

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        11 months ago

        Bluesky joining the fediverse. It’s built on the fediverse but doesn’t seem to have any plans to open up to it

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          11 months ago

          Ehhh, I’d say Bluesky isn’t really built on this fediverse (which uses ActivityPub) but is wanting to make its own fediverse for its own needs (using their own protocol). Part of their reasoning was because of ActivityPub’s issues with account portability. Whether Bluesky will be successful or not in their goals is another matter, though - I’ve heard somewhere ActivityPub is getting proper account portability in the future, but with no time-frame.

          But it’s still nice to have options. I use both fediverse and Bluesky and I like fedi more in a technical sense (emoji reacts, text formatting, overall a matured platform) but Bluesky more culturally (a lot looser, not so much “social media for Linux users”).

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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Despite delays, the plan to connect Tumblr’s blogging site to the wider world of decentralized social media, also known as the “fediverse,” is still on, it seems.

    Over a year ago, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg — whose company acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019 — posted on Twitter that the site would “soon” add support for ActivityPub, the protocol powering Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other decentralized social apps.

    But it also led many fediverse advocates to wonder if Tumblr’s plans to join the world of decentralized social media had also been scrapped.

    Reading between the lines, it seems the company isn’t ready to place a full bet on ActivityPub — though Mullenweg generally supports a more open internet.

    Though Mastodon today only has around 1.5 million monthly active users, ActivityPub is seeing more momentum as of late — especially now that Instagram Threads, another Twitter/X competitor, is pledging integration with the fediverse.

    In another AMA response, Mullunweg also noted that a larger effort to migrate Tumblr’s half a billion blogs to WordPress on the backend is something he’s also contemplating in the new year.


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