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Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy (wedistribute.org)
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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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[–] 9 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

All I want is to return to Tumblr but without the corpo bullshit. Please oh please let this get off the ground

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

    @deadsuperheroTwo questions: how well does it handle Lemmy groups? And can it follow RSS feeds directly in some way? If so, I'm tempted to move from Friendica to WAFRN

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    1. From what I can tell, there have been successful tests with posting to the Threadiverse. I'm not sure how good this experience actually is on Wafrn yet, but it's promising: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/5fa12345-e4ff-4da3-8a95-d1ef1c4bd186/wafrn-a-tumblr-clone-that-federates-with-fedi-and-now-also-has-opt-in-native-bluesky/
    2. I don't think it will natively support RSS anytime soon. It's not a bad idea, but I've only seen platforms from the Friendica family tree and maybe Emissary supporting this. That being said, a lot of publications are on the Fediverse or Bluesky, and it's not too complicated to set up an RSS bot?
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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is what the thread looks like on Wafrn's side: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/39562254-048e-4224-8445-36bba052ea91

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Good to know, but I think I'll need to develop the questions a bit to explain my expectations.On most of the other Fediverse apps I've used (Mastodon, Akkoma, Iceshrimp), Lemmy threads are not actually threaded on the home timeline, instead showing every single individual reply as a separate repost. Friendica does manage threads properly, showing the original post and its replies as a single group. Does WAFRN do the former or the latter?I could technically use a RSS-to-AP bridge, but in my particular case it would almost certainly be considered an abuse of the terms of service: I use RSS feeds to follow YouTube channels, over 1500 of them to be exact. Even if I spun my own local bridge server, that would mean 1500 local accounts to manually generate and follow from my main account just for the sake of notifications. Add 1500 more of those if the software doesn't support Bluesky natively and I need to follow their RSS feeds instead.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Hope this means we eventually get The Sims modding scene to the Fediverse as dispute them loving Tumblr, I always find it clunky to try find CCs

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "Stop telling people I'm dead!" - Tumblr, probably

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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    not to be pessimistic, but I don't see this working. I've seen several alt socials fizzle out and die cause people who want to come refuse to build it

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    Are we able to subscribe using Lemmy/piefed/ect to creators?

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

    Lemmy doesn't have a concept of a post that isn't attached to a community. It's probably possible to post to Lemmy from Wafrn by tagging a community as it is with Mastodon.

    You can follow Wafrn users from Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, etc....

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

    I hope one day the Lemmy developers arrive at the idea that a person could be a community, somewhat like the way Mastodon treats communities as users. It's a confusing generalisation, but it works.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Reddit has that, and the ability to follow a user and get notifications when they post. I'm not sure it's widely used there, but I think it would be a decent feature to add to Lemmy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'd love that idea. Keep it private by default, but if people want people to follow them sure! If they want people talking on their page, sure. Etc etc

    Honestly better that the mastadon/Twitter model to me anyways. Like there are few personalities I follow, and their communities are great. I don't really want disconnected no context verbalizing though like Mastadon/shitter does.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I personally dislike the user/profile centric approach of micro-blogging platforms like mastodon. Platforms like lemmy being based on communities instead is the single reason they are my social media of choice.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Remote profiles appear to show up, it might be possible to also remotely pull in posts. I didn't see Subscribe functionality in Lemmy, but maybe PieFed or MBin support that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I was wondering, cause it mentioned bluesky. I was wondering if it worked on ap or at.

    Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, Bluesky, PeerTube, and even WordPress all managed to show up!

    First time I may be seeing both in one stack.

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    • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Do not recommend. I'm on apixaban now because it doesn't require frequent blood tests

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn’t that a rat poison?

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    • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Increased customizability from HTML and CSS support? Sign me up!

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    https://wafrn.net/

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