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Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy (wedistribute.org)
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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.

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[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 4 months 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.