Mitch's Blog

Aug 28, 2024 ↓

Automattic is moving Tumblr to a WordPress back end — Interesting! There's currently no mass-market platform for personal blogging. WordPress used to be that, but now it's a hairy, often difficult-to-use publishing platform. Tumblr has the potential to fill that gap.

Moving to WordPress would be an opportunity to add ActivityPub support, which Automattic talked about doing years ago but hasn't followed through on. I'd also like it if they fixed Tumblr's broken RSS feeds.