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.

  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
    3·
    20 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
      3·
      19 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.

      • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 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.