Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes

Because 2022The blogging site is teasing its plans to integrate with Tumbler Federation – Open Social Web powered by protocol activities used by mastodons, threads, flipboard and others. Now, the automatic owned blogging platform is sharing more information about when and how that integration may occur.

It turns out that the current plan to tie Tumbler to the open social web will come through the site’s plan Go to WordPress infrastructureThe

Automatic TechCrunch confirms that when the migration is complete, each tumblr user will be able to federate their blog through activities, just as each WordPress.com user can today.

The company mentions that migration can also be approved for other Open Web Integrations, such as giving Tumbler users to other custom plug-in or ways to run the themes.

Last summer, automatically announced it Move WordPress to its half -billion blogsThe company allows the tools and features working across both services, as well as the Tumbler to take advantage of the development of open source from WordPress. Org.

Although the WordPress community itself UpliftedIn the end will allow to run the back edge of Tumblr in WordPress for more skill, when the Tumbler user’s base does not change the interface and experience that has grown to love.

Given the automatic scale, the migration refused to share a deadline about when to complete, but a representative on behalf of the organization called this progress so far “exciting”.

Users were curious about the status of the company’s open social web integration, which Tumblr is still working in 2023The Recently, a user asked about the company’s plans in a questionnaire Tumbler’s work blog in progressThe Here, Tumbller confirmed that Federation Integration itself was “a big reason” for migration and it would include support for “of course” WordPress’ exists ActivitiesWhich lets blog owners sync to syncs and take part in the larger Open Social Web.

However, automatic refuses to share whether it is considering integrating with a protocol, which gives the growing social networking startup blusky, another open social web participant.

When asked how BlueSky can fit in these plans, a spokesman will simply comment on the progress of his activities.