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.
All I want is to return to Tumblr but without the corpo bullshit
Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from “notes” into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢
Last I heard from Automattic, they were putting the Fediverse conversion on indefinite hiatus.
Is your news saying they’re starting up again ?
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.
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.
Two questions: how well does it handle Lemmy groups? And can it follow RSS feeds directly in some way? If so, I’m tempted to move from Friendica to WAFRN
- 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/
- 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?
This is what the thread looks like on Wafrn’s side: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/39562254-048e-4224-8445-36bba052ea91
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
