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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't Tumblr just another microblogging site? Wouldn't mastodon be a viable alternative?

Not that I'm complaining that there's another fediverse software, just trying to understand what is the difference or if it's just splitting hairs.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's all just little text packets, this place included.

    But hey, that's all social media. The slight differences in threading, text limits, media embeds and share mechanics do matter.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They do, absolutely. But what are those differences between Twitter and Tumblr? I thought it was just a different CSS.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Twitter has an aggressive character limit, a focus on a streaming feed and historically it's been built on fast, trending content updated in real time via reposts and this sort of atomized discussion using unthreaded quotes.

    Tumblr has changed a bunch trying to stay relevant in a MySpacey kinda way, but it's ultimately more of a blog platform where the main post is expected to be bulkier and more readable while the threaded responses are framed as more of a comments section you don't even get to see in full by default, so it more or less splits the difference between Twitter and Reddit, or between Masto and here.

    "A different CSS" can impact how you interact with things a bunch, along with how you present trends and follows. Which I guess was my original point.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Feature-wise, it's entirely different from Mastodon and other Twitter-clone. Though, these days Mastodon copies a lot of features from Tumblr as well.

    Example difference: quote feature (not the same as exisiting Mastodon implementation), custom UI, discovery layout, etc.

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