Tumblr's Move To WordPress and Fediverse Integration Is 'On Hold'

Automattic has put its plan to migrate Tumblr's backend to WordPress on hold, with CEO Matt Mullenweg citing a shift in focus toward features users are actively requesting. 'I still want to do it,' Mullenweg says. 'It's just cleaner. But right now, we're not working on it.' The Verge reports: The decision to halt the change also appears to mean that Tumblr posts won't be available in the fediverse in the near future. WordPress.com currently offers an ActivityPub plug-in, so Tumblr moving onto WordPress would theoretically let people bring Tumblr posts to the fediverse. 'That would've been a free way to get it,' Mullenweg says. 'And so that was one of the arguments for migrating everything to WordPress.'

In the meantime, however, 'I think if there was a big push to implement fediverse, we would just do it on the Tumblr code base,' according to Mullenweg.

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