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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Still not fully integrated, but it's nice to see broader ActiviyPub adoption beyond "follow a handful of users who opted-in". I never expected Meta to be the company inching towards federation and not bluesky. Makes me wonder if Tumblr will ever follow through with their promises to federate.

edit: To the (sadly predictable) response that "Meta will screw you over in a heartbeat" YES, of COURSE they will, that's why it's GOOD to be able to access Threads content safely and privately from a non-Meta controlled platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tumblr is being reworked to have a Wordpress backend right now, and Wordpress already has well working ActivityPub support, so yes, Tumblr will very likely happen once they made the switch.

I suspect the technical debt in Tumblr was larger than expected when the first announce federation support, and now it became nearly a full rewrite, which takes time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Tumblr also downsized to 25 employees (including T&S). I don't expect anything groudbreaking from them soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nahhh, Meta sucks ass and will screw you over in a heartbeat. What's in it for them is the question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Data. User data. Always has been.

FB right now is probably 90% bots and AI. The Fediverse isn’t—for the moment being. I’m sure they found a way to tap into it by keeping a door open while pretending to help aerate the room.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They also want to control the headlines that make it to the front page like other major instances do.