Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy - We Distribute
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What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.

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.

  • SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    7 hours 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

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago
      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?
        • csolisr@hub.azkware.net
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Good to know, but I think I’ll need to develop the questions a bit to explain my expectations.

          1. 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?
          2. 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.
    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from “notes” into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢

      • railway692@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Last I heard from Automattic, they were putting the Fediverse conversion on indefinite hiatus.

        Is your news saying they’re starting up again ?

      • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        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.

        • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
          2·
          14 hours ago

          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.

  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    17 hours 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