Tim ChambersAm somewhat relieved to see this sign that #Tumblr work adopting ActivtyPub is still in the works, albeit with tons less resources than #Threads
Jesse@tchambers Uhh... @_jv_ @harris
https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393
Harris Lapiroff@misc @tchambers @_jv_ 👀👀👀
… well this is disheartening
Javi A.@harris @misc @tchambers well, technically speaking, I'm not part of Tumblr since may, they may have started a different project I guess?🤷
@_jv_ @misc @tchambers I hope so, but rereading Matt’s response, it is somewhat ambiguous. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
@harris @misc @tchambers I mean, my reply was more a disclaimer than a real hope. Given how the first time played, I'm skeptical of this second wave
@harris @misc @tchambers here, someone asked one of the product folks still on Tumblr and this is what he has to say on the matter:
🐙🐙@harris @misc @tchambers @[email protected] Aw dang don't wanna give me a shout out? (I'm the user that asked lol)
Im mostly just glad I got an official acknowledgement of it. The way their CEO dropped it on twitter and there was never followed up on it left me incredibly perplexed.
@oct2pus @harris @misc @tchambers i know, I was working for tumblr when the Twitter thing happened and we scrambled to put together a project. I was the one supposed to do all the web UI work.
Once my backend counterpart did some initial investigation and scoping, and it became obvious it was a complex task and that it would become a cost center without any chance to generate any cashflow, the project was quietly put on long-term hold.
Once my backend counterpart did some initial investigation and scoping, and it became obvious it was a complex task and that it would become a cost center without any chance to generate any cashflow, the project was quietly put on long-term hold.
@[email protected] @harris @misc @tchambers the literal only use case I could make up in my head was that it was somehow for integrating WordPress blogs onto tumblr (through the activitypub plugin), which still sounded like a boondoggle but at least it fulfilled some sort of corporate goal outside of "it popped into the CEOs head in the middle of a twitter discussion because it sounded cool and they wasted like a day or two on that before scraping it".
Mayhaps im just assuming Matt is a rational actor when he's just a rich guy who was involved in the creation of One Cool Thing and has rode that ever since.