What differences does this have over Lemmy?
Edit: I never actually used Tumbler
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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lemmy is reddit. wafrn is tumblr
Like the title says, it's meant to be a Tumblr-esque experience.
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
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.
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.
How do you pronounce Wafrn?
I read it as "waff-run"
It's an acronym - "What Asshole Fucking wRote Name"
[Borat voice: wife!] right now
Waffen? 🤔
The more alternatives to corporation owned social media the better! I hope it takes off, but I've never really been a Tumblr guy.
Interesting choice of name to say the least...
Yes, but they do specify "no Nazis" so it can't go wrong.
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
I'm sure they are up for suggests as that name is not doing it any favours.
No alt right, no nazis, no terfs.
How it's possible to enforce this on self-hostable software?