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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world to

Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress | TechCrunch

Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has

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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It makes sense.

Supporting Tumblr backend with patches vs building on top of stable WP and improving it seems like a win win.

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