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   admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 01:24:25 JST admin
   GAME CHANGER!
   11/21 - Tumblr Admin Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) confirmed today that Tumblr will soon be implementing ActivityPub connection across the Tumblr network:
   https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/ActivityPub?sort=recent
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   With a budget that dwarfs @Gargron, we predict that #Tumblr will quickly become the #1 software used to connect to the #Fediverse / #Mastodon Network. Tumblr will be the 1st major corporate social media to implement #ActivityPub.
   
   Tumblr, with 472 million registered accounts as of 2019, is an American microblogging and person to person communication site established by David Karp in 2007 & owned by Automattic, that also owns WordPress. Tumblr permits users to post media to a short-structure blog.
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     Arcadia (arcadiapage@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:17:10 JST Arcadia

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     @admin Awesome. Now I need to go and dust off my tumblr blog!

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     Anders C. Sørby ?? ??? (anderscs@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:48:02 JST Anders C. Sørby ?? ???

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     @admin I'm a bit worried that something like this might eat up the decentralized part of the fediverse. I hope they will opt for a open and respectful implementation that promotes the fediverse to expand and grow while maintaining user freedom.

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     admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:48:58 JST admin

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     Indeed you make a good point ?

     I’m very curious in ways Tumblr.com will affect the

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     admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:49:42 JST admin

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     • Anders C. Sørby ?? ???
     Indeed you make a good point ?
     
     I'm very curious in ways Tumblr.com will affect the Fediverse
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     Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:54:25 JST Paul Wilde

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     • Anders C. Sørby ?? ???
     @anderscs @admin I'm worried too... aren't tumblr owned by Yahoo? not a great business to be fair.
     but, the great thing about the fediverse is separate bubbles can exist, so just because they're implementing ActivityPub does not mean we have to federate with them.
     my concern would be them implementing features that would force other platforms to implement the same. Mastodon has done this already, but generally their intentions have been for the greater good, I'm not so sure about Tumblr.
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     admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:57:42 JST admin

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     Good memory, Tumblr was originally purchased by #Yahoo in 2014 but later purchased by the owner of WordPress, Automattic, in 2019 and administered by Matt Mullenweg.

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     кину奇诺 (kino@fedi.intkos.link)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 03:58:45 JST кину奇诺

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     @paul@notnull.click The good thing with ActivityPub and other FOSS protocols like Matrix is that there is no central authority to control it's utilization. They can't force the wider 'verse to adopt or do anything. Any attempts would simply result in them sequestering themselves off into their own bubbles or sub-networks.
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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:00:56 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     @admin @anderscs When #Gab joined the #Fediverse, users left #Gab and joined the #Fediverse.
     
     #Tumblr joining the #Fediverse will decentralize #Tumblr as well.
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     admin (admin@mastodon.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:14:29 JST admin

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     • Anders C. Sørby ?? ???

     Right on, the WordPress ActivityPub API has been working for some time, they are half-way done before they start.

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     Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:14:31 JST Paul Wilde

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     • Anders C. Sørby ?? ???
     @admin @anderscs ah, OK, thanks. they have experience with AP then so that's a benefit
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     Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:15:08 JST Paul Wilde

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     • Anders C. Sørby ?? ???
     @kino @admin @anderscs right, they can't force, but they could implement features that could effectively break federation with them leading to other platforms to either having to implement the feature or be left with a perceived "fault". and perception matters.
     the other side is a platform holding a lot of users and/or public awareness of ActivityPub can also hold back development of the project by not implementing things, this has happened again with Mastodon, but I think other platforms have got bored and are just implementing things anyway now
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     Anders C. Sørby ?? ??? (anderscs@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 05:43:43 JST Anders C. Sørby ?? ???

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     @paul @kino @admin I wonder how this will affect privacy. These commercial instances could potentially start mining federated user data? But that would probably break GDPR and stuff.

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     Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 05:51:39 JST Paul Wilde

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     • Anders C. Sørby ?? ???
     @anderscs @kino @admin I'm not sure if they could mine it as such, the data isn't on their server.
     Sure they could parse posts to gather information - but this is a public forum, so anyone could do that really.
     Plus there's rate limiting. My instance only allows 3 timeline requests every 5 seconds for unauthenticated users - so actually gathering any sort of useful data would be a long task.
     In the end I'm sure if they ever tried anything suspect then instances would block federation with them and that'd be the end of it.
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     Metro (metro@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 08:33:29 JST Metro

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     July, 2022 Interview with Tumblr Admin Matt Mullenweg, who has been with their parent company, Automattic, for 19 years.

     Matt thinks Tumblr can be a better Twitter than Twitter ever was, read more:
     https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/05/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-found/

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     Metro (metro@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:30:10 JST Metro

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     @paul @kino @anderscs @admin

     Here's the TechCrunch Article that just came out confirming:
     https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/
     This is the opposite of today’s walled garden socials, where a post on one platform can’t be viewed by those on others.

     It could provide Tumblr users with an entry point into the fediverse w/out having to use Mastodon. Matt had been thinking about how Tumblr could compete w/ Twitter: “I just want there to be an open alternative."