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I have big sympathies for FireFish, but I feel like the target audiences so far are very different. Maybe call it the network effect, but it's difficult for me to imagine a tumblr user who maybe is used to blogging about their SuperWhoLock fandoms moving to FireFish where there probably is no big audience for that. At the same time I would want to see these users and their niches in the Fediverse.
There is a very particular culture that is unique to tumblr which I don't see moving somewhere else.
That's fair, but the reality is that Tumblr has been dancing on a knife's edge for a long long time. A community lead and funded effort like FireFish would provide the platform security needed for it to survive. But there's no two ways about it, it won't just happen magically. That said, TumblFish.social could truly be huge and propel FireFish to even surpass Lemmy in terms of users.