Tumblr to join Fediverse after completing WordPress migration

Since 2022The Tumblr Blog Site annoys its plans to integrate with Fediverse – the open social network, powered by Protocol Activitypub, also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard and others. Now the car platform owned by the car shares more information about when and how this integration can actually happen.

As it turns out, the current Tumblr binding plan in the open social network will appear on the planned on the site Move to WordPress infrastructureS

Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to fend their blog via Activitypub, just like any WordPress.com user can today.

The company noted that migration could also allow other open web integrations, such as providing Tumblr users to start other custom plugins or topics.

Last summer Automattic announced that it would Move your half billion blogs to WordPressTo make it easier for the company to build tools and features that worked in both services, while allowing Tumblr to take advantage of open code from WordPress.org.

Although the WordPress community itself is in a state of cataclysmUltimately, performing the back end of WordPress Tumblr would allow more efficiency, while not changing the interface and experience that the Tumblr user base has grown to love.

Automattic declined to share a time frame on when migration would be completed, given its scale, but a company representative called the progress so far “exciting”.

Users are interested in the status of open social web integrations of the company that Tumblr stated that in 2023 it was still workingS A user recently asked about the company’s plans in Q&A included Tumblr’s work blog in progressS Here Tumblr confirmed that Fediverse integration is a “big reason” for migration itself and that “certainly” includes support for WordPress’ existing Activypub pluginswhich allow blog owners to synchronize their publications and participate in the wider open social network.

However, Automattic declined to share if at any time he would look at integration with AT Protocol, which supplies the growing bootable social network Bluesky, another open social web participant.

Asked specifically about how Bluesky can fit into these plans, a speaker will only comment on his progress on Activitypub.