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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Same boat here. I had some good times with it but these days it seems to be a bloated mess. Are there any good, lightweight alternatives these days?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on what exactly you want to host. If you want commercially-hosted stuff, I'd stick with wordpress or whatever your host offers, but if you're selfhosting I'd look in [email protected] or https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#blogging-platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I suppose what I'm looking for is a lightweight, multi-user CMS, with support for both static pages and a blog. If the blog could support (at least one-way) federation that'd be a bonus. It should ideally be built to work with both desktop and mobile devices (so that I can customise the look rather than build it from scratch).

It's something I could build from scratch but if I can do it then I'm sure lots of more skilled people have done it better!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I dug into this for myself I landed on Ghost!

https://ghost.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I suppose at some point I should learn Node.js and other JS-related stuff. I speak vanilla JS but I've not really touched frameworks. Anyway, thank you for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There are Fediverse blog platforms but, as this is about Tumblr, what about a Fediverse tumbleblog? You've got:

Wafrn
Loforo: "Another surprise is that Loforo is the second most active ActivityPub blog platform in the Fediverse, behind only WordPress."
Goblin - mentioned in the previous article. It's a FireFish fork from a former Tumblr employee.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wordpress is all of those except lightweight, though I wouldn't really say it's a bear to manage either. I believe they have initial activitypub support as well.

You can check the selfhosted list for alternatives, but I don't think I've seen one that would be a better fit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mostly find the design of WP clunky as all hell. I'd like to add some features to my site and doing so feels tremendously awkward. Learning how to implement stuff in their way of doing things doesn't feel worthwhile to me, I guess.