<story><title>Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kye</author><text>Can you imagine&lt;p&gt;You log into your Tumblr dashboard&lt;p&gt;All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as&amp;#x2F;WriteFreely instances, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed&lt;p&gt;Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it&amp;#x27;s all neatly tied together through ActivityPub.&lt;p&gt;This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kottke.org&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;tumblelogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kottke.org&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;tumblelogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see people worry that it&amp;#x27;ll be quickly blocked the moment it steps on to the Fediverse. The matt in Automattic lived through the same decades of web and internet we all did. I &lt;i&gt;hope&lt;/i&gt; he has the good sense to slow walk it and make sure Tumblr is a good citizen of the Fediverse rather than flipping a switch one day to open the floodgates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toastal</author><text>&amp;gt; your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed&lt;p&gt;Pixelfed is more or less an Instagram clone ... which is like photo&amp;#x2F;video microblogging. Because the audience is largely &amp;#x27;casual&amp;#x27; and encourage taking and consuming media from a smart phone it does some things with images that are antithetical to what a _good_ platform would be for artists. Instagram compresses the living hell out of images, it limits you to square and close-to-square dimensions, the color profile is stripped (I would assume you still can&amp;#x27;t even upload DCI-P3 photos from non-Apple platforms for whatever reason), and all license and metadata is stripped from the image. Most, if not all, of these issues have traveled to Pixelfed too. If it wasn&amp;#x27;t for the walled status and trying to gain &amp;#x27;casual&amp;#x27; followers, I don&amp;#x27;t think artists would prefer the degradation of image options, quality, and metadata of Pixelfed&amp;#x2F;Instagram if they could be federated on a different, image-quality-focused platform. It&amp;#x27;s not without it&amp;#x27;s shortcomings, but Flickr better at this sort of thing and was talking of federation this week: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;DonMacAskill&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1594945727255699457&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;DonMacAskill&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1594945727255699457&lt;/a&gt;. Currently nothing in the Fediverse respects the media in the way a deviantArt, 500px, Flickr, et.al. type platform does.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kye</author><text>Can you imagine&lt;p&gt;You log into your Tumblr dashboard&lt;p&gt;All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as&amp;#x2F;WriteFreely instances, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed&lt;p&gt;Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it&amp;#x27;s all neatly tied together through ActivityPub.&lt;p&gt;This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kottke.org&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;tumblelogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kottke.org&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;tumblelogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see people worry that it&amp;#x27;ll be quickly blocked the moment it steps on to the Fediverse. The matt in Automattic lived through the same decades of web and internet we all did. I &lt;i&gt;hope&lt;/i&gt; he has the good sense to slow walk it and make sure Tumblr is a good citizen of the Fediverse rather than flipping a switch one day to open the floodgates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>no_wizard</author><text>Why is flipping the switch bad in this context? Isn’t that actually what the protocol needs, a major visible platform adopting it with open arms all at once?</text></comment>