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.

    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 day ago

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

      • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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        1 day 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
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          1 day 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.

          • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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            11 hours ago

            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.

      • railway692@piefed.zipEnglish
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        1 day ago

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

        Is your news saying they’re starting up again ?

        • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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          11 hours ago

          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.