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Options are few far in between , forcing me to use 1st party app . As much as it sucks it's the only way i can access tumblr , The website is awful slow even with adblockers

Given all that, it's a wonder why there's hardly any 3rd party offerings compared to (twitter|reddit)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think there are two reasons:

  1. Tumblr isn't nearly as popular as it was 8 or 10 years ago
  2. Tumblr isn't, generally speaking, a well known site for the kinds of tech focused people that would be building such applications. Tumblr has a focus more towards sharing images (even to the extent of screenshotting twitter posts rather than linking the post itself), and generally speaking (again) more tech focused people tend to prefer sites with more generic content, such as lemmy/kbin/reddit where you can have images, links, and text discussions.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tumblr is also perfectly usable in a browser. In fact, I deleted the tumblr app and created a shortcut from fennec, and it's honestly an improvement. There's really no reason for a standalone app.

Edit: I guess OP tried this and said it's slow. Hmmm this hasn't been my experience

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

I said in the post that it's slow in browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, my brain had a moment. It's not slow for me using Fennec with uBlock Origin. Have you tried a different browser?

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

Firefox with uBO , same setup as yours (assuming fennec's not much different)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fennec should be the same, unless I made some about:config changes that I'm forgetting

I'm not doubting you at all, but that's weird. If anything, the official app is slower for me.

[–] Duchess 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

honestly at this point i would love a fediverse alternative to tumblr. i'd still want all the blog customization options though

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

AFAIK, Tumblr is still planning ActivityPub support, which means Tumblr could be thefediverse alternative to Tumblr.

Though that's opening the same can of worms as Meta in many respects.

[–] Duchess 1 points 1 year ago

i'm not the most well-versed on why someone wouldn't want to use tumblr but honestly if they support activitypub i'm probably gonna use it a ton more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't onow about customization, but there are fediverse blog applications: https://joinplu.me/ and https://writefreely.org/ I don't onow how popular they are.

Wordpress also supports activitypub https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

[–] Spotlight7573 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably because of this:

https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api_agreement

  1. Restrictions d. No Substantial Replication

You will not substantially replicate products or services offered by Tumblr, but are explicitly permitted to create specialized versions or extensions of such products or services. For example, you aren't permitted to fully replicate the Tumblr Dashboard or Tumblr mobile applications, but may create specialized views of Content from blogs followed by a user.

Don't re-implement the Dashboard, and don't recreate complete Tumblr functions or clients on a platform where Tumblr already has an official client (like web, iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone 8).

Edited to add: It might be less of a problem in the future if they actually follow through on adding ActivityPub support and you can follow things from the Fediverse.

[–] keanu0396 1 points 1 year ago

This is one of those situations where the best course of action is to support those apps which do exist - either by contributing code yourself, submitting bug reports and suggestions, or potentially with monetary donations if that's possible for you.

The open source community can only be as good as those that contribute towards it.

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is one web frontend, Tumbex. If the blog url is example.tumblr.com, change to tumbex.com/example.tumblr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tumbex indexes only tumblr posts which have caption or tags. We analyse the content and define if tumblr or posts are nsfw/adult.

So it's really not mirroring tumblr in its entirety . Which is what a 3rd party frontend should do

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago

Well it's better than nothing, it always works for everything I need. It just needs to be supported by all those privacy redirect apps and extensions like those that redirect to Invidious or Libreddit.

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