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Hello, its me gabbo the creator of this hellsite. I am totaly not making this post to make sure that lemmy federation works properly

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

two back-to-back W.A.F.R.N. posts by the same user that read "rent lowering nsfw boosts" and "gotta keed the tech bros at bay"

I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

It was the idea from the start

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 16 hours ago

wow new hellsite!!

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I never understood what tumblr was. How is it any different from twitter etc... ?

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

For me, Tumblr was an online culture different from the ADHD of other journaling/blogging platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You could find conversations in tags, gifs didn't lag my browser to hell, fan content was proliferous there, webpages could be personalized to the lengths you might've gone to in MySpace. It was the place to find fandoms and fandom content, even for the most obscure series. There were no ads. And I felt like gifs/texts of porn and kinks were made more accessible when searched for by tags.

There was no algorithm - discovery of new blogs was just subscribing to tags & maybe following who your followed-people followed, the way the fediverse kinda is.

I felt like the presentation was good to relish each post of content with less distraction, and the pagination + scroll browsing was just enough to keep me addicted.

Someone correct me if I'm remembering it wrong.

RIP 2011 Tumblr

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

I am gona tell you a secret: yes but no. It shows full threads by default, thats a starter

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

It is Blogger that wanted to become twitter and achieved neither

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

One of the biggest issues with fediverse platforms is poor presentation. This is another good example of that.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

HIRE A DESIGNER, HE SAYS

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Its intentional.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed 'adult' blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.

What's the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.

For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that's going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind's worst elements.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

its a fedi platform, shit will happen but we have blocked the worst of the wrost on fedi. And we also check registrations for vpns. Registration with vpn is not allowed for safety

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Well this is damned exciting.

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do these kind of things always have random-name-generator names? Just name it something sane.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 19 hours ago

Its name stands for "We Allow Female Representing Nipples", based on the tumblr policy of banning Female Representing Nipples.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 20 hours ago

If everything was named "Something Sane" how would we tell different things apart?

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you have against e I o u and sometimes y?

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wafrn stands for We Allow Female Representing Nipples in reference to 2018 tumblr porn ban

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Wafern would probably roll off the tongue a little better?

[–] traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

err wasn't the tumblr verbiage "female presenting nipples"?

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that is correct but I already bought the domain when I realized that and waprn doesnt sound as well

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago

WAP right now

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dedconfigurator@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

for safety reasons on my side yeah sorry

[–] Balerion6@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Thank god. I hate being on websites with kids.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i love it but Please choose a name that can be pronounced

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no. it means "we allow female representing nipples". Also there is no canonica way of pronunciating it

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Seems pretty easy? Wayfern?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago
[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

@gabboman@app.wafrn.net ,

Is registration on the wafrn website backlogged? I submitted a registration bout 12 hours ago, and the registration page said to wait a few hours for review. Got nothin in my email just yet. Not that I'm antsy, and there's no rush; just hoping to know when I should follow up to log in :u

I didn't get any email confirmation about my submitted registration, I realize. I refrained to keep from spamming, but... Should I actually submit another? :x
Edit: think I saw the fdroid app & submitted my registration form there, mentioning in case it's relevant

Thank you for this! I'm not sure how I would've found out about Wafrn otherwise, lol

[–] skribe@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also includes Doom in the settings. Mouse didn't work for me though.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

its old doom keyboard only

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[–] Lampadaire_raclette@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

Just registered !

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

Sure would be nice if the fediverse realized that part of what is holding back adoption is your nonsensical gen alpha service names.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You had me at reticulating splines.

e. Registrations over VPN are disabled. Pause it while registering or you'll have to spend an entire minute rewriting the stuff D=

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude that gender list is great.

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[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know bsky is not everyone's jam. But I promise wafrn will do the best to protect you from stupid shit they do. The main wafrn instance has blocked jd vance as example ;D

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

this post is totaly not a test of lemmy federation wink wink

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, tumblr died out in 2017 because they said "NO PORN!!!"

And all the blogs died.

It's like Dr Cox said: "If you take all the porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left. www.bringbacktheporn.com and nobody would visit because it doesn't have porn."

So. Does WAFRN have porn? And also.....why are these things ALWAYS named with weird hard to pronounce names? Come see my new website Drufyflezak!

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

any plans to appease the cohost crowd and allow css in posts?

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

we allow some css in posts

[–] Steve@communick.news 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Being an idiot in a hurry, I saw the medication Warfarin

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