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Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy (wedistribute.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising. It can speak both ActivityPub and AT Protocol, offers a ton of interesting features and customization, and focuses on making an incredibly fun experience.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from "notes" into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That might be more related to what they're doing with the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, as a way to work around some of the weird limitations WordPress has for representing notifications and activities other than comments. It's fairly standard for Fediverse stuff.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, I misunderstood, I didn't realize this related to Tumblr specifically...

    Still, it might make some of the dev work easier, if they do end up migrating the backend over to WordPress.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    They could do it on the back end and leave it as "notes" on the front end, though.

    Switching out notes for a Twitter-like UI ruins something which made Tumblr Tumblr.

    Comments on their post about it are about 99:1 against, but they're not gonna switch back.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Last I heard from Automattic, they were putting the Fediverse conversion on indefinite hiatus.

    Is your news saying they're starting up again ?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    No, Wafrn is completely separate from Tumblr. And as far as I know the horrible redesign to make "notes" more like Twitter has nothing to do with the Tumblr-on-Wordpress/ActivityPub migration, which last I knew was indeed shelved.

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