💫 Tumblr x Fediverse

The reason I think an instance as large as Tumblr is detrimental to the fediverse is due to federation.

It only takes one interaction with tumblr for it to send Delete activities to every instance it knows, regardless of size.

You may not realize how often posts are deleted & federated at Mastodon scale, Tumblr would be 50-100x that.

This is just Delete activities, ingesting new tumblr posts + media at this scale is a whole other ball game #fediverse