Tumblr supports Tapestry, applying the open social network schedule

The blogging site owned by cars and the social platform, Tumblr has been supported financially texturethe The newly launched app Designed to organize summaries From the open webIncluding RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others.

Firing As the Kickstarter project in January 2024, Tapestry continued to collect more than $ 177,000 by collective financing for its application, which is what to open He arrives in the audience earlier this month with its applied application store.

On Tuesday, the company shared the application that Tumblr also supported its project with a grant. This money will be used to create the original MacOS version of its application. (Meanwhile, the IPAD version of the application can be turned on MACS.)

Tumblr’s attention is followed in this field in 2019 acquisition By WordPress.com Automatic origin, which is Moving the end of Tumblr grace to WordPress To simplify operations. As a result of this step, Tumblr will be connected to FediverseThe open social network is supported by Activitypub, the protocol that runs MASTODON, themes, the Boxes, and many other applications.

designed by iconfactoryHe is famous for her work on TwitterOne of the Twitter applications of an external entity, TAPESTRY allows users to organize a variety of sources-such as blog publications, news articles and social media updates-in their own construction summaries.

The app supports sources such as RSS (news feed), YouTube, PodCast, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Tumblr, Micro.blog, Go Comics and others.

The broader idea behind Tapestry is to give users more control of how to receive news and information.

With climbing Open the social web In particular, people can now better control their online experience. Instead of being owned by giant technology algorithms, users on applications such as Bluesky build their own summaries, subscribe to specialized summaries designed by others, and make their own moderation services.

Thanks to Tumblr support, Iconfactory says it also provided a TAPESTRY care program, which allows advertisers to market their products and services to the application user base. Instead of using traditional internet ads to support the app, the care feature is designed with the considering creative and independent creators.

“Our hope is for the surrounding community to want to know the exciting independent applications and blogs fed by enthusiasm, podcasts or YouTube channels that teach and entertain” Blog post Explain.

TAPESTRY is one of a handful of applications that are now trying to provide the same level of customization by building a wider internet -based internet -based internet, instead of just one social network, as Bluesky.

Among the others are competing in this field Surfingand FeesAnd Reader.

Tumblr and the team at iconfactory were asked to comment on the financial grant. We will update if more information is provided.