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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 31 points 2 months ago

This smells to me like WordPress reducing their workload more than anything since they own Tumblr (unless maybe there's some sort of financial incentive to increasing the number of WordPress blogs?).

But also, considering that at one point in Tumblr's history, you could edit other people's posts, maybe it is an improvement.

[-] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

But also, considering that at one point in Tumblr's history, you could edit other people's posts, maybe it is an improvement.

What 😭

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

So the way Tumblr works is that your account is basically a blog, with your home page on the site being populated with posts from the accounts that you follow. You can reblog posts onto your own account and comment on them to create individual conversation threads like this one. At one point, there was a bug in the edit post system that let you edit the entirety of a post when you reblogged it, including what other people had said previously, and even the original post. This would only affect your specific reblog of it, of course, but you could edit a post to say something completely different from the original and create a completely unrelated comment chain.