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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
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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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[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

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!

[-] houseofkeb@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

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

https://ghost.org/

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 3 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.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 3 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.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 3 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.
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