#fediverse

[dearimasu]

hello tumblrheads. with the ongoing shitshow i remembered im the spokesperson for this tumblr alternative so,

WAFRN.NET, a tumblr-style, queer-safe, alternative

pictured: wafrn users in their natural habitat

wafrn is a fediverse-based* social media consisting of majorly of queer people, it has an active userbase, a ton of them doing fuck-all and having fun :]

perks!

It has custom css! You can customize your profile with pretty much anything and make themes for you dashboard

It connects to Mastodon, Pleroma, Firefish, Misskey and such, so you can connect with over 100k other people on remote servers!

We're even working on an independent wiki! That means we'll have a comprehensive wiki with notable user-generated moments and events and it wont be hosted on fandom!

It's indie, no corporations attached.

Its open source! You can open it right up and look through the code :)

Predominantly Leftist: Bigots and bootlickers are banned the moment they make themselves known, and the staff [that includes me] actively interacts with the userbase.

*the fediverse is this interconnected chain of servers operating on the same network [that being ActivityPub], allowing people on entirely different websites to connect with eachother, basically.

#tumblr alternative #tumblr alternatives #queer #fediverse #social media #trans #html #indie web #old web #photomatt #wafrn

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Look, I’m 52 years old. I used to be way more interested in how things worked. Now I’m interested in how they fail. I don’t care how good the administration of Bluesky or Threads is today— I care about what happens if it sours tomorrow.

Facebook has broken so many promises. Remember when Facebook opened up to the general public in 2006 with the promise of being the pro-privacy alternative to MySpace? Remember when they told us they’d never collect and mine our data? They are liars, and we shouldn’t trust them.

But a company doesn’t have to be run by venal scumbags to put its own interests ahead of its users.

Many is the tech CEO who reasoned that selling out their users was the moral thing to do, because the alternative was firing dozens or hundreds of people who trusted them, quit their jobs, and jeopardized their mortgages and kids’ college funds to come work for the company.

Seen in that light, selling out your users is actually an act of noble self-sacrifice, in which your loyalty to your friends trumps even your pride in delivering a high-quality product.

-Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated

#ulysses pacts #Switching Costs #Federation #Fediverse #Mastodon #Threads #Bluesky

[thoughtportal]

link to thread

#ublock #youtube #adblocker #fediverse #toot #toots #mastodon

[settlercolonialismisbad]

hey staff, how’s it going with this? it has been 4 years. can we hang out with my fediverse friends?

#image description in alt #automattic #tumblr staff #a&m #open source #oss #technology #fediverse #federate #mastodon #activitypub

[goblin-social]

A quick example of the current state of Goblin:

I imported my following list from mastodon and started following everyone with my goblin.band account too, so I basically read all my mastodon content from there already. Even if no one but me using the tumblr-like features I'm adding, I already enjoy Goblin more than Mastodon.

Things that I've added since my last post:

Integration with mastodon (and well, any other fediverse platform that use plain text instead of html)

Copy/pasting images in the editor

Sanitized html input when saving & updating posts

Improved the landing page

Cleaned the menus and improved the UI in general

Current "next" to-do list:

Fix posts displaying images twice when you paste an image

Fix RSS feed including the inline files again after the post

Sanitize html inputs on incoming federated posts

fix several style issues around different settings sections (black texts on dark blue background, white text over white background, etc)

Figure out if I can create a tumblr-api app so the posts from goblin can be automatically shared here without having to go through Zappier.

Figure out what kind of server I need to run a, let's say, 500 people server.

Find someone to do some security review of my server (Long story short, I've only a very slim idea of what I'm doing when configuring a server and I'm sure I've left some huge security holes around).

This is happening, folks. I think Goblin is going to be a reality. At least https://goblin.band will be.

#goblin #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon

[gabbomanestamuyloco]

come join wafrn, HE can not harrass you there

unlike in other places, transphobes will get banned

#tumblr migration #fediverse

[xieliansbignaturals]

If you're looking for somewhere else to go now that Tumblr is selling our data to AI, I have a recommendation!

I'm a big fan of blorbo.social, a small Mastodon server for fandom (as you might have guessed from the name). We love our blorbos there. There aren't a lot of us, but there are enough to have nice discussions and silly threads. If you're in danmei or OFMD fandom, you'll find friends easily, and if not, your friends will just have different fandoms from you.

I run a daily fandom prompt game over there - drabbles! doodles! any other creative medium! (We've had podfic and cosplay!) I've also run fandom tournaments like "Most Pathetic Character", "Biggest Simp", "Femdommiest Mommy", and there have been various OFMD-centric tournaments I wasn't paying as much attention to (sorry OFMD fans). You can post about your personal life, your blorbo thirst, your silly headcanons, your serious fanfiction...

NSFW is allowed, but you have to mark it, so it's easy to avoid. The mods are doing this out of love for fandom, so they won't be selling your data. And there are specific rules against various forms of bigotry and harassment, as well as proactive moderation, so you won't have to worry about TERFs or fan-police/antis.

If you need guidance, I also made this other post explaining how to set up an account.

Please come join us! Reblogs are also very welcome! <3

#mastodon #fandom mastodon #fediverse #tumblr #ai #danmei #tgcf #mdzs #ofmd #<- fandoms that might be interested in checking out the communities over on blorbo #i'm so so brainfoggy right now so i hope this makes sense

[no-passaran]

Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter it's a good time to remember Mastodon exists, a not-for-profit decentralized open-source social media site that looks similar to Twitter.

If you have Mastodon feel free to reblog and add in the tags your username.

#i'm @[email protected] #(i post both in catalan and english) #💬 #mastodon #twitter #elon musk #fediverse

[hadeantaiga]

#mastodon #calckey #fediverse

[mostlysignssomeportents]

But HP is still in business. Apple is still in business. Google is still in business. Microsoft is still in business. IBM is still in business. Facebook is still in business.

We don’t have those controlled burns anymore. Yesterday’s giants tower over all, forming a thick canopy. The internet is “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.”

These tech companies have produced a lot of fire-debt. Over and over, they erupt in flames—in this short decade alone, every one of our tech giants has experienced a privacy scandal that should have permanently disqualified it from continuing to enjoy our patronage (and I do mean every one of them, including the one that spends millions telling you that it’s the pro-privacy alternative to the others).

Privacy is just one way that these firms are enshittifying themselves. There are the ghastly moderation failures, the community betrayals, the frauds and the billions squandered on follies.

We hate these companies. We hate their products. They are always on fire. They can’t help it. It’s the curse of bigness.

Companies cannot unilaterally mediate the lives of hundreds of millions — or even billions — of people, speaking thousands of languages, living in hundreds of countries.

- Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

#platform decay #fire debt #good fire #threads #interoperability #privacy without monopoly #fediverse #zuck's empire of oily rags #wildland–urban interface #network effects #switching costs #network effects vs switching costs #adversarial interoperability #comcom #competitive compatibility #enshittification #twiddling

[dearimasu]

people are jumping ship again so i am once again telling you to join wafrn. its a tumblr knockoff but its MY tumblr knockoff

it has custom css, so you can customize your blog and stuff

it connects to mastodon, pleroma , and such, so you can interact with thousands of people on other sites

it has a wiki

it's indie, no corporations attached

leftist as hell

#tumblr #tumblr alternative #tumblr alternatives #alternative #fediverse #indie web #html #wafrn #websites #pst

[settlercolonialismisbad]

things are going well at Meta today obviously

#threads #social media #instagram #meta #fediverse #mastodon #lemmy #dumpster fire #zuckerburg #mark zuckerberg #this is fine #lol

[goblin-social]

Changelog 6/3/2024

Well friends, I come to you bringing some great news!

Not only @sirilyan has set-up a second Goblin server (https://kobold.page), but after a few adjustments and fixes, now Goblin is fully working as a tested multi-server network! Someone using an account based on a server (let's say, Kobold,page) is able to follow and see posts from someone in a different server (for example, Goblin.band) not only keeping all the formatting, but also the entire reblog chain.

I know this may sound like technical gibberish, but it means that the idea of a federated version of Tumblr is finally taking shape and... it works. It actually works. And it's beautiful.

#goblin #goblin changelog #fediverse #activitypub

[tauon07]

hate matthew mullenwanker? you should join the fediverse, NOW!

the fediverse is totally awesome. it's a magical system, sort of like email, meaning anyone on different websites can talk to each other, seamlessly! (usually seamlessly. sort of. kinda.)

there are a ton of awesome websites (known as instances) you can join! if you don't like one, that's fine, because the magic of the fediverse allows you to follow people on all the other ones!

some of my favourite are:

wafrn (short for "we allow female representing nipples") made by our own @gabbomanestamuyloco - it's a tumblr-like social media written in angular. it supports tags with spaces and symbols like tumblr does.

transfem.social (an instance of sharkey, hosted by transfem.org) - it's more like twitter, but so much better! it allows advanced post formatting allowing for animations and custom emojis and even more! it also has emoji reactions on it.

goblin.band - another tumblr-like fedi instance, based on firefish, so it's similar to transfem.social, but it has traditional tumblr features such as notes and reblogging. i think it also has tags with spaces but i'm not fully sure since i've never used it.

wet-dry world - an instance of mastodon, running on a modified software called chuckya. it has emoji reactions too, and it has a cleaner ui theme made by freeplay (but the old one can be turned on in settings). they also have tim sweeney from epic games, and steam from steam (not really)

(there is also the software akkoma, but i don't know any good instances of it, sorry! >w<)

now what?

first, once you've set up your profile, you should make a post using #introduction as a hashtag. just say a little about yourself and what you like. you should also mention that you come from tumblr, people are really nice to tumblr users on fedi.

also, you should understand fedi is different to tumblr. you should do stuff like put alt text on images, and use content warnings on your posts.

next, you should follow some cool people! here are a list of some i know:

follow me if you want, i'm @[email protected]

@gabbomanestamuyloco is @[email protected]

@jv is @[email protected]

@puppygirl-hornyposting2 is @[email protected]

@[email protected] is a shitposter (and really nice person :3) with lots of interesting history

@foone is @[email protected]

@beigely is @[email protected]

@[email protected] is my bestie and she would really appreciate more followers i think :3

there are lots of other cool people you will see quickly once you start interacting with people :3

maybe this is just me, but after i joined fedi i started noticing a lot more "mastodon" or fedi links on peoples' websites, so i found a lot of cool accounts that way. keep an eye out!

i hope you have fun with your new knowledge about the other places out there, just a few clicks away. :3

also this is my first long tumblr post sorry if it's bad >w<

#tauon.rtf #fediverse #mastodon #wafrn #goblin band

[thoughtportal]

#toot #mastodon #fediverse #doom scroll break #hope

[macleod]

via @\[email protected]

#tech #techcore #90s #computers #anime #fediverse #mine