youronlyone (@youronlyone@c.im)
So, what's the update on #Flickr and #Tumblr joining the #Fediverse network? I haven't heard anything from them, while other services are starting to test their #ActivityPub implementations.
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teledyn (@teledyn@mstdn.ca)
Should anyone be of the #Emacs and #Tumblr mindset, I'm happy to report there is a fork of Tumblesocks that, while not feature complete, is a joy to use.
https://codeberg.org/martianh/tumblesocks
I didn't need his required custom packages for Oauth and so far so good. It's rough, but the core essentials are there (the story of all opensource)
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notes (@notes@goblin.band)
Fun fact! A couple of months before being shown the door of Tumblr Staff, I tried to make the case of tumblr product direction changing dramatically to consider something I thought it was crucial.
Until that point, everytime we got a big wave of new users (because of Elon doing shit, Reddit's CEO doing shit, etc), Tumblr struggled to keep most of them around for more than a few hours. That tracked with the experience of the majority of automattic management, who couldn't manage to become regular tumblr users themselves. And the consensus was that we needed to change Tumblr to make it more appealing to non-tumblr users, so it could grow, and that could lead to be sustainable, etc.
The point I tried to make is that we didn't need to make tumblr pallatable for more people, but the opposite. Some informal polling, both done by myself and others, clearly pointed at something big we were ignoring. Tumblr does EXCEPTIONALLY well among two groups of people: Queer and neurodivergent folk.
Even looking internally, at who within automattic became a regular tumblr user and who tried but failed to stick around after the acquisition, the biggest prescriptor of someone being in the first group was being either neurodivergent or queer. If you were both, basically there was a 100% chance you were on tumblr daily already.
So I wrote a internal long memo sharing the polling data, digging up numbers of people who self-identify as queer in the US and people who has been diagnosed as neurodivergent, and tried to build the case that since they were the core of the tumblr userbase already, we shouldn't try to dilute whatever made tumblr attractive to them to try to appeal to a wider audience, but the opposite: We needed to dig in and become the neurodivergent queer site for real, and try to grow by bringing in people who may already feel like tumblr was a good home for them.
What I got with that internal post? A lot of likes from queer and neurodivergent staff members and a polite "thank you for your suggestion, we'll keep you in our thoughts and prayers" from management. The CEO and COO just kept insisting that they wanted to make tumblr the home for people who loved art, and ignoring one of the most succesful posts in the history of the platform is about a pineable and a werewolf (if you know you know).
So yeah, I'm not surprised about that poll. At all.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/thisismissem/statuses/112249180947189456
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notes (@notes@goblin.band)
Just a general reminder that when Automattic sold millions of 2012 teenage selfies from tumblr to OpenAI and Midjourney without asking for consent first, they were MASSIVELY violating GDPR too:
https://qbankdam.com/en/blog/seeing-the-whole-picture-how-gdpr-views-your-images-as-personal-data
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notes (@notes@transfem.social)
This, right here, is why I do what I do. We [trans people] will never be safe on corporate social media. Even a platform that advertises itself as "the queerest place on the internet" will happily nuke our accounts with no warning or chance to appeal.
And so I push through the stress and burnout to continue one of the hardest things I've ever done. Running this instance is a daily struggle, but it's worth it. We've suffered enough under hostile moderation and apathetic corporations, so now it's time to ensure our own protection.
Transfem.social is and always will be a safe space for marginalized people. That's my promise, and that's the goal that keeps me pressing forward.
-- Ember, admin of transfem.social 
#Trans #TransGender #TransFem #Queer #Tumblr #TumblrMeta
RE: https://transfem.social/notes/9s8zzk5y4xpu1510
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MindTGap (@MindTGap@universeodon.com)
@_L1vY_
possibly related!!!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sa1cwuyynx1vmobp0.mp4
#Caturday #Thief #Tumblr #Mp4 #foxeverything
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notes (@notes@goblin.band)
Sure, some hellsites have the boops, but can you add animated cat ears to your avatar?
Checkmate, tumblr!
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Rozzychan (@Rozzychan@fandom.ink)
If you are on #tumblr, enable booping so I can boop you for April Fools Day.
BOOP!
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tchambers (@tchambers@indieweb.social)
Am officially now following all things #goblin - both from my #tumblr account and here on the fedi via @goblin - and am very excited to watch this evolve….
https://goblin.band/notes/9r6dwj1fjqhvvcse
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notes (@notes@goblin.band)
RE: https://social.translunar.academy/objects/9fd43c5d-1130-41f0-90e7-0450a6f04eb3
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darnell (@darnell@one.darnell.one)
@tchambers @nunesdennis @darnell@threads.net #Goblin (https://goblin.band) is a project by @javi whose goal is to take the awesomeness of #Tumblr & mix it with the #Fediverse.
Javi has posted more info about Goblin on his blog: https://tumblr.com/jv
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vantablack (@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol)
y'know
if you'd asked me about making a tumblr-specific thing similar to the anti-meta fedi pact BEFORE the car hammer incident
i'd say i personally agree with it but that finding support across the wider fediverse might be a good deal harder than a pact against meta
because even though tumblr allows some of the same horrible shit, the vibes of the site are very different and lotsa peeps have good memories of it
but now... i could totally see myself doing FediPact 2 if tumblr ever announced they were gonna federate. public perception has shifted enough that it'd be doable
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