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[–] Feathercrown 142 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.

[–] DrSlippyNips@eviltoast.org 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's banned but there's still a lot of porn on there, lol.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Porn finds a way....--Goldblum

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[–] ekZepp 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Careful, I think you are choking on something.

[–] ekZepp 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's fine now; I've taken a sip from my drink.

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[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago

They brought back tasteful nudity, mostly.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unlike Threads, I kind of even don't mind

Tumblr is generally cute, and while we should be on the watch still, I think it could enrich the Fediverse community.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I was thinking the same, but the CEO of the company that currently owns Tumblr recently went on a very strange ego trip burning a lot of bridges and generally making an ass of himself, so I have become more cautious.

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[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

I don’t care who federates. We can always ban their instance:

[–] Aurelius 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m surprised it has taken them so long to switch to Wordpress given that they are owned by the same company

[–] FooBarrington 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They couldn't log in because of the WP Engine checkbox

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 7 points 1 month ago
[–] mesamunefire 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't realize they were switching over to WordPress to be honest.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nobody should be switching TO Wordpress in 2025… or 2023 or 2020 even. But definitely not 2025.

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tumblr ha no choice, WordPress bought it years ago

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

matt's an ass and all, but the service on the .com does have a decent track record afaik.

[–] FooBarrington 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No longer after the drama of the last few months. Stay as far away from WordPress as is humanly possible.

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[–] Krafting 27 points 1 month ago

This could be awesome in bringing lots of users. In the fediverse we trust them (unlike threads)

[–] PieMePlenty 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thats nice to hear. I still have a queue to post every day. The site has its problems but at least the community arent bootlicking nazi assholes. To me its currently a small oasis on the internet.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

migrating my entire dying website to wordpress so I can use a protocol that is not only open source (negating the entire need to migrate to wordpress) but will immediately defederate with anything even vaguely corporate is surely something

expect the entire domain to be hijacked by a supplements Ponzi scheme by the weekend.

[–] octoblade@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Tumblr is owned by Automattic, which runs WordPress.com. Tumblr migrating to WordPress is not a surprise in the slightest.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] RebekahWSD 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It never died. Even with the killing of porn it just kept going. The userbase actively despises the owners and will keep it alive through this hatred. Through all owners.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yo I forgot about that! Hahaha I kinda forgot about Tumblr completely after they porn drama. I never used it back then or now but I heard about it because of that

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] MapleEngineer 16 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Is Tumblr still a thing? I thought it died after the christofascists banned porn. I haven't been back since that day and heard it had died.

[–] AgentDalePoopster 11 points 4 weeks ago

Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think they might have softened the TOS for that?

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[–] RamenJunkie 5 points 4 weeks ago

I started using it regularly after many previous failed attempts when Twitter died. Same for Pinterest oddly. I use them for similar but distinct things.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

I hope it's implemented better than Facebook's version with the ability to see other Fediverse posts in Tumblr and follow right from the app. I always liked Misskey/Starkey because I felt it was the next generation of Tumblr but it would be great to see more Misskey posters in Tumblr.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Now we need an activitypub linkedin

[–] ILikeTraaaains 31 points 1 month ago

Please, no.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

For what it's worth, I don't understand why anyone needs any linkedin.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Which part of LinkedIn? The social media part? The CV part? The job board part? E-learning?

What would the federated, non-social media parts even look like?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] Valmond 11 points 1 month ago

Linkedin getting a social media part is really the proof that enshittyfication is fucking everywhere.

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[–] mesamunefire 9 points 1 month ago

Don't let your dreams be dreams! I know theres a lot of people have stated they are interested. I'm personally not sure what things you would like displayed to others with activityhub specifically.

[–] RedStrider 9 points 4 weeks ago

i imagine that by "ActivityPub for Tumblr" they mean a buried option in your settings to monodirectionly bridge your blog to ap

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 weeks ago

Man, I remember looking up all sort of fantasy and cyberpunk artwork on Tumblr back in the day. Haven't been on there in several years though.

[–] ekZepp 7 points 4 weeks ago
[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago

They're wanting threads users to interact with their site.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How does that person think ATProto would prevent monopolization? ATProto is effectively controlled by a singular corporate entity. It already is a monopolized protocol.

Bluesky says they created ATProto because account portability is a problem on ActivityPub - which it 100% is. But account porting is something that's still being worked on for ActivityPub. If Bluesky actually cared about a decentralized platform, they would have contributed toward ActivityPub's development by helping to create the account porting tools. Instead, they created a new network that they own and control, and have gaslit their users into believing is "decentralized".

[–] graphito@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Just a mention that streams (prev hubzilla) already implemented nomadic identity which solves the problem of account portability

[–] AdrianTheFrog 7 points 1 month ago

There's also other protocols already made, like the one used in Hubzilla which can hande account porting well

[–] mesamunefire 6 points 1 month ago

Some platforms have decentralized login wihich is fascinating as a software developer. Works with activityhub too. I think it was one of the gnu projects? I'm not in a good position to do a good search right now.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

You and I know this, but the user who asked probably doesn't know any of that. They just know that BlueSky is the popular new thing, and it claims to be federated, so why not use the more popular thing?

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