Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky
Hello, its me gabbo the creator of this hellsite. I am totaly not making this post to make sure that lemmy federation works properly
The Foxblob emojis are fantastic
I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.
It was the idea from the start
I know bsky is not everyone's jam. But I promise wafrn will do the best to protect you from stupid shit they do. The main wafrn instance has blocked jd vance as example ;D
this post is totaly not a test of lemmy federation wink wink
i can't make posts about vance?
You can and theoreticaly you can actualy mention harrass him in bluesky funily enough but wont look like a mention in wafrn end
Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed 'adult' blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.
What's the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.
For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that's going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind's worst elements.
its a fedi platform, shit will happen but we have blocked the worst of the wrost on fedi. And we also check registrations for vpns. Registration with vpn is not allowed for safety
Being an idiot in a hurry, I saw the medication Warfarin
Thank you for your hard work! Let me know if you'd like to talk on Fireside Fedi with me sometime!
fireside fedi?
Fediverse centric podcast. I've never watched/listened. But I regularly see episodes through the new que on Lemmy. They even host on peer tube.
You had me at reticulating splines.
e. Registrations over VPN are disabled. Pause it while registering or you'll have to spend an entire minute rewriting the stuff D=
Dude that gender list is great.
My god cat with disturbingly human lips, the internet is back.
Seriously, I love it. Correct amount of humor and functionality. I’m on the road but I’ll be signing up for sure.
I assume that is the link?
yeah
Well, tumblr died out in 2017 because they said "NO PORN!!!"
And all the blogs died.
It's like Dr Cox said: "If you take all the porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left. www.bringbacktheporn.com and nobody would visit because it doesn't have porn."
So. Does WAFRN have porn? And also.....why are these things ALWAYS named with weird hard to pronounce names? Come see my new website Drufyflezak!
I always figured because the weird names have cheaper domain registrations. However wafrn is a pretty short name so, it probably is on the high end.
And also avoiding law suits with another existing names / registrated brands.
Why do these kind of things always have random-name-generator names? Just name it something sane.
Its name stands for "We Allow Female Representing Nipples", based on the tumblr policy of banning Female Representing Nipples.
If everything was named "Something Sane" how would we tell different things apart?
Interesting: Activityhub and bluesky integration out the door. Thats a first (I think?)
I never understood what tumblr was. How is it any different from twitter etc... ?
For me, Tumblr was an online culture different from the ADHD of other journaling/blogging platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You could find conversations in tags, gifs didn't lag my browser to hell, fan content was proliferous there, webpages could be personalized to the lengths you might've gone to in MySpace. It was the place to find fandoms and fandom content, even for the most obscure series. There were no ads. And I felt like gifs/texts of porn and kinks were made more accessible when searched for by tags.
There was no algorithm - discovery of new blogs was just subscribing to tags & maybe following who your followed-people followed, the way the fediverse kinda is.
I felt like the presentation was good to relish each post of content with less distraction, and the pagination + scroll browsing was just enough to keep me addicted.
Someone correct me if I'm remembering it wrong.
RIP 2011 Tumblr
I am gona tell you a secret: yes but no. It shows full threads by default, thats a starter
It is Blogger that wanted to become twitter and achieved neither
Is it pronounced like the blood thinner/rat poison (warfarin)?
Is that how it kills the rats? Thins their blood to death?
Essentially yes, as one side effect is bleedings
wow new hellsite!!
Exciting! I've made an effort to let go of Insta for both privacy and hatred of Zuck's policies, which left me stuck on Tumblr to look at any fanart/fandom content. Hopefully this could replace people's need for Tumblr in a few years, especially since they also do a shit job of caring about their users.
Edit: Knowing the context of the name is hilarious, wish I was there for the Tumblr exodus. I will be sure to spread to other platforms about this wonderful service.
It has an F-Droid app btw: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.djara.wafrn_rn
Also includes Doom in the settings. Mouse didn't work for me though.
its old doom keyboard only
Only for 18 and up...?
for safety reasons on my side yeah sorry
Thank god. I hate being on websites with kids.
Well this is damned exciting.
hell yeah
i was big in the david karp era fandom tumblr and loved it during gleek tumblr and spn tumblr days (i still have an account but don't use it as much) so i'm definitely going to look at this (as someone that also uses bsky, i like the idea that it's integrated with atproto too. i trust that it's trans and queer friendly too? :^
Just registered !
any plans to appease the cohost crowd and allow css in posts?
we allow some css in posts
I love WAFRN so much 😭
Is registration on the wafrn website backlogged? I submitted a registration bout 12 hours ago, and the registration page said to wait a few hours for review. Got nothin in my email just yet. Not that I'm antsy, and there's no rush; just hoping to know when I should follow up to log in :u
I didn't get any email confirmation about my submitted registration, I realize. I refrained to keep from spamming, but... Should I actually submit another? :x
Edit: think I saw the fdroid app & submitted my registration form there, mentioning in case it's relevant
Thank you for this! I'm not sure how I would've found out about Wafrn otherwise, lol
Is PM Seymour on it?
Thats sick!
Sure would be nice if the fediverse realized that part of what is holding back adoption is your nonsensical gen alpha service names.