Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web

Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others. Launched as a Kickstarter project in January 2024, Tapestry went on to raise over $177,000 via crowdfunding for its app, which opened up to the public earlier this month with its App Store debut. On Tuesday, the company behind the app shared that Tumblr had also backed its project with a grant. Those funds will be used to build a native macOS version of its app. (In the meantime, the app’s iPad version can run on Macs.) Tumblr’s interest in this space follows its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent Automattic, which is moving Tumblr’s back end to WordPress to streamline operations. As a result of this move, Tumblr will get plugged into the fediverse, the open social web powered by ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, and many other apps. ... Read full article.