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Why should we? Tumblr isn’t a product of a big and evil megacorporation like Meta.
No, anymore. Once upon a time Yahoo bought tumblr for over a billion dollars. It was most recently bought for only $3 million.
If one thing happens, does that automatically mean some other specific thing will happen?
No.
Tumblr still exists?
Doesn’t support it yet. There’s been murmuring that they want to support it, but I’m of the “I’ll believe it when I see it” opinion that most of that was just empty promises. I’d like to be proven wrong though!
There’s absolutely no way it will happen. Tumblr staff is incompetent af, assuming they even actually attempt it I guarantee it never sees the light of day.
In practice, don’t be surprised if most of the fediverse doesn’t defederate from either.
I stand my opinion on this… Some people are defederating Meta because they are anti-capitalist; these are the same admins who defederated mastodon.cloud as well as instances from Medium/Mozilla/etc on moment’s notice, so I think they will certainly defederate from Tumblr. Most people would probably want to at least wait & see since Tumblr isn’t as nefarious as Meta is
Not a huge surprise there is a large anti-capitalist faction on lemmy, so this isn’t terribly surprising.
I’m no meta apologist, they’ve done enough to warrant skepticism. The reality is they can harvest the data even if you defederate their main instance, by setting up shadow instances or just scraping other instances, so that argument doesn’t really hold water for defederation. The bigger one is content vs spam coming from their instances and possible EEE measures, but immediate defederation only serves to keep them siloed off and does not let them function as an offramp to better instances for regular users.
