Submitted 9 months ago by gabboman@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
if this counts as spam sorry not sorry. I created a tumblr clone two years ago. And then I conected it to the fedi like a year ago. its been hard, its buggy and its fun. Did a big redesign during christmas
With Tumblr the bugs became features, so its only right for the fediverse version to do the same.
Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that’s not the point.
it’s always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.
it goes very well, it has some bugs because its a one person job. idk why your post wasnt apearing in wafrn.
How do you pronounce that?
Way-fern?
🎵 You got just what I need 🎵
At first I read rn as m, and expanded that to What a Fucking Moron. 🙁 For that reason I might suggest changing the name.
Looks like “Warfarin” to me, which is a rat poison.
I was staring at it a minute confused because it looked like warfarin to me lol
“John Whorfin.”
I’d make “Waf right now” from it, but I dunno.
Wah-fern. Like wario or waluigi
I have to say, I never used Tumblr, but I know that it was suggested as an alternative to either Twitter and/or reddit. How is it different and or similar from microblogging and the threadiverse?
I’ve seen it described as the social media site for people who hate social media.
The story goes that when Facebook was becoming mainstream, a guy came along and decided he hated Facebook. So he hired a software engineer at his company to help him make a site that wasn’t Facebook in any way. Basically, the criteria for the site were that he could post photos on it and follow people whose photos he wanted to see, and he didn’t have to see anything he didn’t care about.
So Tumblr is a very self-curated social media experience where there’s no brands or celebrities. You just search for stuff by hashtags, follow blogs that interest you, and post and reblog stuff at your whim. Everything is displayed on your dashboard chronologically, and the only stuff you’ll find on there is stuff from people you follow.
The closest thing I’d describe it to is Twitter, but it’s more blogging than microblogging and the more direct interaction between you and the people you follow can feel a lot more personal than other forms of social media. You can send people messages that can be answered in a public post in addition to the usual direct message system. There’s no character limit on posts or anything, and people will write full short stories and stuff. It also has more of a sense of permanence, in my opinion. It isn’t uncommon to see popular posts crop back up that were created in 2012-2014.
There’s a big culture of Yes And improv, shitposting, and reblogging really old posts on a periodic basis
This is seriously one of my favorite things about the Fediverse… someone decided to make their own experience of it and build a platform… now it’s a thing.
Kudos clever internet person!
it started as a thing before being conected to the fedi. Its just that seemed like the best way of keeping the project alive and OH MY FUCKING GOD IT WAS HARD AND OH MY GOD I COMMITED SO MANY CRIMES AGAINST CODE
This is relevant to my interests.
there are some people registering with… fake emails lets say in the latest few hours. Sorry but need a real mail, even if its an anonimous one but i need one
I just registered with a novelty email address, but it IS real I swear.
Define “real mail”.
Will my usual accounts (GMail and Yahoo, I am still stuck in absolutely-proprietary land when it comes to e-mail) work? :P
This is great and very needed! Please use a name that can be remembered and pronounced though.
make me
I can’t make you but I think it could be helpful longer term
Didn’t Tumblr announce ActivityPub support last month? They still have yet to implement it, so I guess you already beat them to that.
they announced it more than a year ago, but tumblr now is on a skeleton crew. and no, I do not mean gay zombie pirates, I mean just a few of devs. AP is something hard, Ive done it my way but it would not scale to a tumblr scale.
Also, they have to add a lot of stuff to the interface
Good to know
Went to check out the source code for the front-end and see if there was anything I could help out with… Saw it was made with Angular.
oh no
(Congrats on integrating Fedi into it!)
well you should look at the backend that one is bad.
The front I did some big changes during christmas, it was a big improvement on the UX
Do you happen to have a Matrix or Discord server set up to talk about development? I’d love to help out if I can.
I’m sure you’ve heard this but just to reiterate, I’m super excited for this and I’m proud of you
yay ;D
I cannot for the life of me figure out what this actually is. But congrats on building it and yay for more federated stuff!
its hell on earth
Thank you.
Okay, but how do you pronounce it?
MxRemy@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Whoaa, a fedi tumblr clone?! I had no idea anyone was working on that. You rock!