Wafrn, the tumblr inspired fedi software has got a new logo and a new installer

Fediverse@lemmy.world – 115 points – 6 months ago

GitHub - gabboman/wafrn: Wafrn is a small social media that respects you. No alt right, no nazis, no terfs. Join us and have fun

Well, so as the thing says, I've updated the software a lot, comissioned an artist for a logo and now is not a hell to install.

@gabboman @fediverse oh wow I wonder who would develop this

Is this comment made from a wafrn instance? It's cool that it works with lemmy

@arudesalad its more like in mastodon tbh. its a comment to a post

I was just scrolling through the instance to see what it is like and I saw this post, I know it's federation but it is still really cool

@arudesalad sometimes.... shit... just works!

No alt right, no nazis, no terfs.

How it's possible to enforce this on self-hostable software?

What differences does this have over Lemmy?

Edit: I never actually used Tumbler

lemmy is reddit. wafrn is tumblr

Tumblr is a blogging experience that's similar to Twitter, but more focused on the user itself than on the central feed.

You have your blogs and you post there. Yes, you can have many blogs.
There's global feeds with posts from all users, potentially including yours.
Posts can have non-intrusive hashtags, meaning they are not #partOfThePost, but in a separate, smaller, dedicated section of the post.
You can't post stuff to someone else's blog, but you can comment on their posts. Comments are tiny next to the post.
You can quote posts, but that makes a duplicate in a blockquote rather than linking to the original post like Twitter

Like the title says, it's meant to be a Tumblr-esque experience.

@technomad @gabboman ok so reddit is like a forum. Tumblr is twitter without sucking that much ass. I mean, it does because ceo has gne full cunt mode, but anyway

take alook how it looks

https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/exploreLocal

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Tumblr is short-form blogging platform, inspired by tumbleblogs, which were a thing back in the day (another example of Big Tech lifting an idea and then walling it off). So it's like micro-blogging but without the word limit, so you can throw out a thought or a picture or a video, or go into greater detail if the mood took you. On Tumblr people would tend to have a few on different topics.

I much preferred it to Twitter as it felt a lot more free-form but usually focused on a topic.

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How do you pronounce Wafrn?

Way-fern?

Wah-fern?

Warfarin?

I read it as "waff-run"

It's an acronym - "What Asshole Fucking wRote Name"

I chose the second one

[Borat voice: wife!] right now

Waffen? 🤔

The more alternatives to corporation owned social media the better! I hope it takes off, but I've never really been a Tumblr guy.

Keep making open source projects words no one can pronounce or spell. I love using stuff no one uses… glad it’s being worked on but wow it’s like a battle to name things confusing sets of letters

I'm sure they are up for suggests as that name is not doing it any favours.

Interesting choice of name to say the least...

Yes, but they do specify "no Nazis" so it can't go wrong.

Wafrn, in MY Lemmy?? It's more likely than I thought!

Seriously though I LOVE Wafrn. I got into Tumblr right at the tail end immediately before it went to shit, and I always regretted not doing it sooner. Wafrn rules.