Hello, its me gabbo the creator of this hellsite. I am totaly not making this post to make sure that lemmy federation works properly

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    @gabboman@app.wafrn.net ,

    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

  • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
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    8 days ago

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

    • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      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

    • gabboman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I am gona tell you a secret: yes but no. It shows full threads by default, thats a starter

  • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
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    8 days ago

    two back-to-back W.A.F.R.N. posts by the same user that read "rent lowering nsfw boosts" and "gotta keed the tech bros at bay"

    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.

  • gabboman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    i was big in the david karp era fandom tumblr and loved it during gleek tumblr and spn tumblr days (i still have an account but don’t use it as much) so i’m definitely going to look at this (as someone that also uses bsky, i like the idea that it’s integrated with atproto too. i trust that it’s trans and queer friendly too? :^

  • the_q@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    8 days ago

    One of the biggest issues with fediverse platforms is poor presentation. This is another good example of that.