Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky

[eldritch@piefed.social]

Rodney Anonymous being one of them. Well I guess he's not necessarily indy? Though he's definitely not mainstream. Outside of Punk Rock Girl I'm not sure how much else of their catalog got play.. But they are legends up in Philadelphia. Which is where he DJs once a month for ynot radio.

The fediverse provides a platform individuals can completely control if they want. Or at least be free of a lot of unsavory restrictions and associations. And for a punk group like Rodney's, that is even more important.

[xnx@slrpnk.net]

i love it but Please choose a name that can be pronounced

[gibibit@lemmy.world]

It has an F-Droid app btw: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.djara.wafrn_rn

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

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.

[blindfrog@lemmy.world]

@[email protected] ,

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

[gabboman@app.wafrn.net]

Try registering again, weird. Also on web

[blindfrog@lemmy.world]

Ahhhh, immediately got a confirmation that my registration was submitted! Ty, ty

Edit: did it through the website, FYSA

[buboscandiacus@mander.xyz]

I never understood what tumblr was. How is it any different from twitter etc... ?

[blindfrog@lemmy.world]

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

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

The Foxblob emojis are fantastic