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Well, so as the thing says, I've updated the software a lot, comissioned an artist for a logo and now is not a hell to install.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@gabboman @fediverse oh wow I wonder who would develop this

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Is this comment made from a wafrn instance? It's cool that it works with lemmy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@arudesalad its more like in mastodon tbh. its a comment to a post

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was just scrolling through the instance to see what it is like and I saw this post, I know it's federation but it is still really cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

@arudesalad sometimes.... shit... just works!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

What differences does this have over Lemmy?

Edit: I never actually used Tumbler

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

lemmy is reddit. wafrn is tumblr

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tumblr is a blogging experience that's similar to Twitter, but more focused on the user itself than on the central feed.

  • You have your blogs and you post there. Yes, you can have many blogs.
  • There's global feeds with posts from all users, potentially including yours.
  • Posts can have non-intrusive hashtags, meaning they are not #partOfThePost, but in a separate, smaller, dedicated section of the post.
  • You can't post stuff to someone else's blog, but you can comment on their posts. Comments are tiny next to the post.
  • You can quote posts, but that makes a duplicate in a blockquote rather than linking to the original post like Twitter
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Like the title says, it's meant to be a Tumblr-esque experience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@technomad @gabboman ok so reddit is like a forum. Tumblr is twitter without sucking that much ass. I mean, it does because ceo has gne full cunt mode, but anyway

take alook how it looks

https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/exploreLocal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Okay, but why male models?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Tumblr is short-form blogging platform, inspired by tumbleblogs, which were a thing back in the day (another example of Big Tech lifting an idea and then walling it off). So it's like micro-blogging but without the word limit, so you can throw out a thought or a picture or a video, or go into greater detail if the mood took you. On Tumblr people would tend to have a few on different topics.

I much preferred it to Twitter as it felt a lot more free-form but usually focused on a topic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

No alt right, no nazis, no terfs.

How it's possible to enforce this on self-hostable software?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How do you pronounce Wafrn?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It's an acronym - "What Asshole Fucking wRote Name"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I chose the second one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

[Borat voice: wife!] right now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Waffen? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The more alternatives to corporation owned social media the better! I hope it takes off, but I've never really been a Tumblr guy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Keep making open source projects words no one can pronounce or spell. I love using stuff no one uses… glad it’s being worked on but wow it’s like a battle to name things confusing sets of letters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm sure they are up for suggests as that name is not doing it any favours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting choice of name to say the least...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, but they do specify "no Nazis" so it can't go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Wafrn, in MY Lemmy?? It's more likely than I thought!

Seriously though I LOVE Wafrn. I got into Tumblr right at the tail end immediately before it went to shit, and I always regretted not doing it sooner. Wafrn rules.