I disagree. Decentralization has its own quirks when it comes to usability. This is not a call to exactly emulate centralized platforms, but a recognition of where many of the pain points are, and how we can collectively improve the UX to make it a better experience for newcomers.

Yeah, this is something I’ve been slowly exploring, too. There aren’t a lot of great options yet, and my personal opinion is that we have yet to see a platform that’s purpose-built to be a Fediverse CMS. Hubzilla comes the closest conceptually to this idea, but unfortunately it’s closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress.

Bonfire remains an extremely interesting prospect, I feel as though it might be possible to create something very similar to the Ghost experience with Bonfire and extensions. It might be worth reaching out to their devs and having a discussion about publishing capabilities.

This is what the thread looks like on Wafrn’s side: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/39562254-048e-4224-8445-36bba052ea91

1. From what I can tell, there have been successful tests with posting to the Threadiverse. I’m not sure how good this experience actually is on Wafrn yet, but it’s promising: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/5fa12345-e4ff-4da3-8a95-d1ef1c4bd186/wafrn-a-tumblr-clone-that-federates-with-fedi-and-now-also-has-opt-in-native-bluesky/
2. I don’t think it will natively support RSS anytime soon. It’s not a bad idea, but I’ve only seen platforms from the Friendica family tree and maybe Emissary supporting this. That being said, a lot of publications are on the Fediverse or Bluesky, and it’s not too complicated to set up an RSS bot?

Oh, I misunderstood, I didn’t realize this related to Tumblr specifically…

Still, it might make some of the dev work easier, if they do end up migrating the backend over to WordPress.

That might be more related to what they’re doing with the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, as a way to work around some of the weird limitations WordPress has for representing notifications and activities other than comments. It’s fairly standard for Fediverse stuff.

Servers are hosted and operated by different admins.

Hey, thanks for sharing this! Yes, we could absolutely use help with writing articles and managing our social media accounts. There’s a lot we try to cover, but we’re a very small team.

Sorry, our provider had an outage around that time. We should be good now!

To my knowledge, the project isn’t dead…but, it has been moving at a horribly slow pace for a very long time.

Funkwhale is a pretty cool project, but it’s one of those things where the ActivityPub implementation really was bolted on well after the core experience was defined and developed. It was meant to be a Grooveshark clone, while a lot of people were hoping to use it in a more social way, like SoundCloud.

Regardless of how you feel about it, it’s still notable that people on the Fediverse managed to scrape $500k together. This is the first time something like that has ever happened on this network. In the world of big politics and presidential campaigns, it’s not much. However, within the scope of grassroots organizing, it’s substantial.

I agree that I would love to see that funding go towards mutual aid, infra and project funding, and supporting people who work on different parts of the network.

He is a bit bombastic, and has a habit of biting off more than he can chew sometimes. I think these side-projects are ultimately useful, though, and probably help fend off boredom or burnout. Maybe he gets better at coding and design through doing that, I dunno.

Regardless, he’s continues to do a lot of great development work.