GAME CHANGER: Tumblr Soon Connecting to Mastodon/ActivityPub

GAME CHANGER! 11/21 - Tumblr Admin Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) confirmed today that Tumblr will soon be implementing ActivityPub connection across...

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@irwin Top comment: "This is really cool! I can't wait to defederate from tumblr!" 😂 hey, whatever you wanna do, He-Man, the fediverse power is yours
@irwin Hopefully Reddit is next
@irwin 👍 I’m hoping WordPress will roll this out, too. If I recall correctly, they’d been working on this not long ago.
@catacosmosis @irwin There's an ActivityPub plugin for WordPress already, although it's still in beta. I'm about to start playing with it.
@mamamusings @catacosmosis Curious to hear how that works. What's the "Inbox" for a WP installation?
@irwin @catacosmosis don’t know yet. Back in the (g)olden days of Movable Type blogs we had “trackbacks,” which appeared in excerpted form in the post comments. That approach would make sense for this as well.

@irwin

This is *super* interesting, and wow would it be cool if more services followed suit!

@clive @irwin Is there a brief tutorial somewhere on what the fediverse is and what it means?

@daersay @clive

Have you seen this video?
https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD

Here's a good interactive "picture" of the Fediverse:
https://fediverse.party/

More technically, I think learning about ActivityPub is what's more important, since that's what really is underlying the Fediverse:
https://activitypub.rocks/

What is the Fediverse?

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@irwin @clive yes, I'm realizing that about ActivityPub, especially with that Tumblr post. I'm slowly learning about all this so thanks for the links. It helps me to explain it to others who know even less. :)
@daersay @clive Actually, if you really want to get into ActivityPub, @darius has a very readable guide to the spec: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/
reading-activitypub

@irwin @daersay @darius

oh, damn, thank you!!

@clive @irwin @daersay also I have several talks available:

https://videos.theconference.se/darius-kazemi-social-solutions-to

https://vimeo.com/354276253

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxBu5Tktm1g

More on the "talks" page of my website but those are my three most high-level ones, all touching on different aspects (small communities, the concept of trust, and (social) network topology, respectively)

Darius Kazemi – Social solutions to social networking

“You can have weird and dangerous features in a platform if the core is that you are never gonna scale.”Internet artist Darius Kazemi is known for his many...

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@darius @clive @irwin these are great, Darius! Thanks!

@darius @clive @daersay

"I don't think you can have norms that work for a billion people."

Great quote. Thank you again, Darius.

@clive @irwin @darius and naturally Darius was writing about this 3 years ago
@irwin @clive @darius of course he does, because Darius ;)

@irwin @daersay

Yep, I've been thinking I need to dive heavily into the details of activitypub

It looks *damn* interesting and I think I'd dig hacking together some personal tools to use

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