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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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All I want is to return to Tumblr but without the corpo bullshit. Please oh please let this get off the ground
Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from “notes” into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢
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.
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.
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.
Last I heard from Automattic, they were putting the Fediverse conversion on indefinite hiatus.
Is your news saying they’re starting up again ?
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.
Two 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
- 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/
- 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?
This is what the thread looks like on Wafrn’s side: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/39562254-048e-4224-8445-36bba052ea91
“Stop telling people I’m dead!” - Tumblr, probably
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
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
