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.
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It was the idea from the start
wow new hellsite!!
Sure would be nice if the fediverse realized that part of what is holding back adoption is your nonsensical gen alpha service names.
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
One of the biggest issues with fediverse platforms is poor presentation. This is another good example of that.
how would you do it
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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
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?
Well this is damned exciting.
i love it but Please choose a name that can be pronounced
no. it means "we allow female representing nipples". Also there is no canonica way of pronunciating it
Seems pretty easy? Wayfern?
No, it's "wah-fren."
Wuff-fern
What do you have against e I o u and sometimes y?
wafrn stands for We Allow Female Representing Nipples in reference to 2018 tumblr porn ban
Wafern would probably roll off the tongue a little better?
err wasn't the tumblr verbiage "female presenting nipples"?
that is correct but I already bought the domain when I realized that and waprn doesnt sound as well
WAP right now
wafpn, not waprn
doesnt sounds well
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
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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.
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=
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!
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Thank you for your hard work! Let me know if you'd like to talk on Fireside Fedi with me sometime!
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