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)

  • @Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
    1•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.