[HN Gopher] Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migrati...
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       Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes
        
       Author : Fitik
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2025-02-11 21:26 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | piperswe wrote:
       | I'm befuddled that Automattic is still investing in adding
       | features (e.g. federation) to Tumblr. There's just about no
       | chance of them actually making money from it, because its users
       | are just about the most monetization-hostile users on the
       | Internet.
       | 
       | It doesn't help that the CEO actively antagonized a large portion
       | of the site not too long ago.
        
         | drivingmenuts wrote:
         | If they're converting Tumblr to Wordpress, I bet it will get
         | folded into their main hosting solution eventually and Tumblr
         | will cease to exist.
        
         | tylergetsay wrote:
         | What else would they invest long term capital into? Developing
         | PHP is the only thing that could come to mind
        
       | TiredOfLife wrote:
       | Can we expect another round of silly blocklists from the
       | fediverse?
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | If Matt wasn't so fixated on WPEngine, he could actually do
       | something important and radical by pushing Tumblr as a true user-
       | controlled (i.e. each user has their own TLD) alternative to
       | Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram, Threads, etc.
        
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