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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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So... if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮

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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago

The question is whether or not Tumblr users would want such a thing.

I feel like the same thing will happen like when WordPress introduced a (bad) TikTok/streaming clone called Tumblr Live. I think less than 10% of the userbase ever interacted with it, most of the community openly hated it, and the people who did use it largely didn't use Tumblr themselves.

I could see Tumblr users actively finding a way to defederate their blogs from everything Fediverse related.