Mastodawn

If or when #Tumblr joins the fediverse what attitude do you think your instance should adopt:

Full federation

50%

Limited federation aka silenced

20.8%

No federation aka blocked

6.9%

see results

22.2%

Poll ended at Dec 20, 2022 at 12:55pm.

Sean Tilley Dec 19, 2022

@fedi I'm supportive of the concept of federating with Tumblr, but it would end up being the largest instance in the fediverse, with millions of users.

I'm concerned that the sheer amount of activities coming out of one place could DDoS modestly-sized instances, unless we all come up with a way to safely deal with so much inbound traffic on the federated timeline.

A temporary bandaid might be to disable the Federated / Whole Known Network tab, and have actors only start ingesting activities from people they follow + boosted activities + followed tags. Even then, that might be a reach.

@deadsuperhero @fedi That is also my concern as well. I do think #Tumblr would be a popular choice due to it’s simpler sign up process & vast array of themes that can mimic:
👉🏾 #Mastodon
👉🏾 #Pixelfed
👉🏾 #WriteFreely
👉🏾 #Peertube
👉🏾 #Funkwhale
More thoughts: https://darnell.tv/2022/12/11/tumblr-dominion-fediverse-automattic/
I also believe #WordPress with it’s vast array of services would also join the #Fediverse soon after (making Automattic a dominant player by default).

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Darnell (TeleVerse)

@darnell @deadsuperhero @fedi WordPress is already partially federated, using plugins. But a built in solution would absolutely be better.

@ilinamorato @deadsuperhero @fedi I agree. Thus far #WriteFreely (https://WriteFreely.org) & #MicroBlog (https://micro.blog) are the only blogging platforms that have fully embraced #ActivityPub.
I think #WordPress will as well & #Tumblr is their beta test into the #Fediverse.

WriteFreely

Minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform.

WriteFreely

@darnell @deadsuperhero @fedi Agreed. Identity is going to be tricky with WordPress, since multiple users with multiple bylines can all contribute content to the same blog and it seems like a federated version of it should reflect that (right now the plugin I'm aware of only adds a single user of a particular blog to the Fediverse). Much easier to work out the kinks with a system like Tumblr that's 1:1 (one user, one blog).

@ilinamorato @deadsuperhero @fedi That is true. I do wonder how #Tumblr will address user handles though‽
People can already access the site via example.tumblr.com (or example.com if you have a custom domain) & tumblr.com/example (this is similar to Medium).
Would it be [email protected] or [email protected] (or both‽).
I am looking forward towards their embrace of #ActivityPub.

@darnell @deadsuperhero @fedi it occurs to me, given that additional bit of info, that actually Tumblr isn't one user, one blog; but one user, multiple blogs. While WordPress is multiple users, one blog. Interesting. 🫠

Vivp_5

@ilinamorato @darnell @deadsuperhero @fedi I think there's a main blog that you can follow from, and then side blogs where you can post, and people can follow you, but you can't follow others from your side blogs

I only have one blog so I'm not sure

@Vivp_5 @ilinamorato @deadsuperhero @fedi For #Tumblr that is correct.

Vivp_5 Dec 19, 2022

@darnell @ilinamorato @deadsuperhero @fedi given that this relies on a 'master' account, with side blogs, how would that integrate into the fediverse? For me personally, I'd love to have some sort of integration between my mastodon and tumblr account, but idk how it could work

@Vivp_5 @darnell @deadsuperhero @fedi I would hope some type of aliasing or redirect.