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   Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 01:49:38 JST Ben Werdmuller

   Matt Mullenweg has reportedly committed to add ActivityPub to Tumblr. This is a huge deal. Exactly what I hoped to see: a growing federation of social platforms, all committing to work with each other. It’s happening.

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     j.r / Julian (jr@social.anoxinon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:09:28 JST j.r / Julian

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     @ben might also be a bad thing. Look at what adding XMPP to Google and Facebook products did to XMPP, after the commercial products had grown very big...

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     Ian Littman (ian@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:37:36 JST Ian Littman

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     @tinker @jr @ben Flip side is, Tumblr is now owned by the folks who are the corporate face of WordPress. They're used to being a decent sized fish in a huge pond. Embrace, extend, extinguish isn't Automattic's MO.

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:37:37 JST Tinker ☀️

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     @jr @ben - Yeah, I'm personally worried about a "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of ActivityPub... hoping that Tumblr isn't large enough to do that. Now, if I could spin up my own Tumblr server! Sure... but Tumblr is a centralized platform. So. Proceed with caution is my goto.

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