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.

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from “notes” into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      3·
      5 days 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·
        5 days 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
          1·
          5 days 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.

    • railway692@piefed.zipEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Last I heard from Automattic, they were putting the Fediverse conversion on indefinite hiatus.

      Is your news saying they’re starting up again ?

      • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        5 days ago

        No, Wafrn is completely separate from Tumblr. And as far as I know the horrible redesign to make “notes” more like Twitter has nothing to do with the Tumblr-on-Wordpress/ActivityPub migration, which last I knew was indeed shelved.