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Automattic - owned blogging site and societal platform Tumblr has financially backedTapestry , thenewly launched appdesigned to organize feedsfrom across the open web , including RSS , Mastodon , Bluesky , and others .
Launchedas a Kickstarter task in January 2024 , Tapestry go on to raise over $ 177,000 via crowdfunding for its app , whichopenedup to the public to begin with this calendar month with its App Store debut .
On Tuesday , the company behind the app shared that Tumblr had also indorse its project with a subsidization . Those fund will be used to progress a native macOS version of its app . ( In the interim , the app ’s iPad version can black market on Macs . )
The Tapestry team say the extra fund give them enough track to make improvements over the next 9 to 12 month .
Tumblr ’s interest in this space watch its 2019acquisitionby WordPress.com parent Automattic , which ismoving Tumblr ’s back death to WordPressto streamline operations . As a result of this move , Tumblr will get plug into thefediverse , the open social vane power by ActivityPub , the protocol that power Mastodon , Threads , Pixelfed , and many other apps .
design byThe Iconfactory , best known for its work onTwitterific , one of the original third - party Twitter apps , Tapestry allows users to orchestrate a diversity of sources — like web log station , news articles , and social media update — into feeds of their own introduction .
The app tolerate sources like RSS ( news feeds ) , YouTube , podcasts , Bluesky , Mastodon , Reddit , Tumblr , Micro.blog , GO Comics , and others . To date , the app has seen around 40,000 installs , the company tell .
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The broader idea behind Tapestry is to give user more control over how they have news and information .
With the rise of theopen social webin peculiar , people can now better control their on-line experience . or else of being beholden to a tech giant ’s algorithms , users on apps like Bluesky are building their own feed , subscribing to specialized feed built by others , and configure their own moderation service .
“ Our hope is that the community around Tapestry will want to know about exciting indie apps , blogs that are fuel by enthusiasm , and podcasts or YouTube channels that inform and entertain , ” an Iconfactoryblog postexplains .
arras is one of a handful of apps that ’s now attempting to put up that same level of customization by building an aggregator focused on the wider web that ’s build on loose protocol , rather of just a exclusive social connection , like Bluesky .
Others competing in this space includeSurf , Feeeed , andReeder .
Tumblr confirmed the subsidisation came from it straight off , not from its parent ship’s company Automattic , and was made to help support the open social web .
Updated after publication with more info on the grant and the company ’s next plans .
