Maybe some of its users will join the Fediverse? But where should they go, I don’t think there’s a federated Tumblr clone.
I have not used it, but wafrn is supposed to be a federated tumblr alternative.
Wafrn is wild. I don’t use it regularly, but everytime I go there, there are walls of custom emoji reactions, individuals who post wild stuff I don’t understand and hundreds reacting to it with custom emojis that I don’t know the meaning of. I love it.
That was my experience with Pillowfort. It seemed to be a fun club to be a part of, but God did I feel out of touch, I was soooo lost.
Like coming to Lemmy and all the content is memes about the number 4
Also Sharkey and Akkoma
I never heard of those to be described as close to Tumblr. If we’re suggesting nice fedi platforms in general, I would suggest Catodon, which I maintain 😁
They have a decent set of Tumblr-like features so I would call them Tumblr alternatives
I’m trying Wafrn since you sent your message and it’s not like Pillowfort, or I missed something important. It feels like an enhanced Mastodon more than anything else.
I don’t know what to tell you, I never used any of those, but Wafrn is the one Fediverse platform that I know that presents itself as “Tumblr-inspired”. Don’t know if there are others, but this one’s the most popular for sure. It also connects with Bluesky.
I never used Tumblr so it may not be a Tumblr part that’s missing 😅. If I could describe it with things I know it’s more like the child of Mastodon and Lemmy. You have communities (but without votes), tags, and personal timelines.
lol, I said this kinda jokingly in another comment, but you may actually want to try Catodon (disclaimer: I’m the maintainer), “the child of Mastodon and Lemmy” sounds pretty close to what we’re doing (among others)
catodon.rocks Ill try it out thanks!
This is a test from my new account. Interesting software. im seeing some differences already. Mastodon posts are much better supported here. Although im having trouble finding “stuff” in here.
Ohh custom emotes!😮:fediverse:
I’ll try it then :-)
we’re also always open to suggestions, so if there’s any particular feature from Pillowfort that you’re missing, we’d seriously consider it, if it fits our direction. In any case I’d love to hear your feedback if you get around to trying it.
I wasn’t a heavy user of Pillowfort (like I said I didn’t blend in even if I thought it cool). But if I think about something I’ll say it!
I have not used Tumblr, but I am replying here from my self-hosted Wafrn.
That may be a different experience from joining a Wafrn instance where people imported norms from Tumblr. Most of my follows and followers are probably on Mastodon. The selling point for me is that it speaks both ActivityPub and ATProto so it can also interact with BlueSky accounts directly instead of through a relay.
Yeah, the last thing I remember about pillowfort is their security issues, and I hang out on Tumblr (a space it was designed as an alternative for). People weren’t recommending it anymore after that, like they used to.
I tried it out before then, but it didn’t hit for me. I’ve tried a million alternate ljs and tumblrs, so that says nothing about its quality. If you go on social media and no one wants to talk with you about what you want to talk about, it seems like a waste of time and effort.
It’s a shame when independent projects like this close down, but if not enough people stepped up to help when help was needed, burnout was inevitable, and burnout can only be ignored for so long. Better to close it down like this than in a more dramatic way.
The type of people who went on pillowfort might actually be interested in fediverse alternatives. They’ll reconnect on dreamwidth, probably, and post where they can be found. If Wafrn has what pillowfort users want and, more importantly, if their friends from there want to try it out with them, it could be a healthy boost of furries, lady fandom nerds, and lgbt+ people to the fediverse.
Lack of funds, essentially. For all we hate corporatised Internet services, we really suck at funding alternatives.
This is an ongoing problem, we need to figure out a way to make these services sustainable. The donation model obviously isn’t cutting it.
Paid supporter membership? Something like, you get a snazzy badge next to your username if you send them 2 EUR a month?
Don’t have any sources, but I feel like I’ve seen that model before and it doesn’t seem to have worked so far for most people.
I have a monthly donation going to the nonprofit running Lemmy.world as it was my server for the longest time, and it seems to work for them?
The donation model works for a very few groups, but for the vast majority of OSS and freehosted projects, donations are nowhere close to covering costs.
Even lemmy.world is viable because they only count server costs, and are volunteer run. If they had to cover staffing costs, it would be untenable.
true that!
Most people will buy a Starbucks everyday then scoff at paying for a service they use daily.
No idea why you’re being downvoted, it’s quite obvious the majority of users aren’t contributing financially to the free services and products they use.
I bet that next to nobody on Pillowfort has ever heard of the Fediverse, and that absolutely nobody has ever heard of anything else in the Fediverse than Mastodon.
I feel like people who are already using an ‘alternate’ site are more likely to have heard of other ones.
Not likely enough, though.
I’ve watched Mastodon and its users for years now. From my experience, for more than 50% of all Mastodon users, the Fediverse equals Mastodon. That doesn’t mean that they don’t count Lemmy as part of the Fediverse. It rather means that they’ve literally never even heard about Lemmy. They haven’t heard of any Fediverse software other than Mastodon.
There are lots of ATmosphere users who haven’t even heard of Mastodon, much less the Fediverse.
Another example: I’m an active user of a virtual world system named OpenSimulator. It’s extremely similar to Second Life, also because it uses the same viewers. It’s free-as-in-license as well as free-as-in-free-beer and free-as-in-most-grids-don’t-even-have-in-world-payment. It’s open-source. It’s decentralised to the point where your avatar can teleport to other grids (= worlds = server instances). And yet, the vast majority of OpenSim users have never heard of Mastodon either, much less the Fediverse.
That’s fair. However I was making the comparison with the general population, and yeah, knowing that websites exist outside the big 3/4 ones they use is already a feat for them.
The odds are still very low for a Pillowfort user to know of us, but have to be a huge multiple of the odds for a typical Tumblr user.
By way of example, I made a Pillowfort account myself when the Tumblr porn ban happened. So there’s at least one. (Although I didn’t stick around there much)
These odds are still extremely slim. Even if there was one Pillowfort user who has heard of Wafrn, that one voice wouldn’t be loud enough to reach the whole crowd in time before they all move to something that’s nothing like Tumblr or Pillowfort (e.g. Mastodon, Bluesky). And I don’t think that there are that many more people on Pillowfort who have heard of Wafrn. Especially considering how few people on Mastodon, much less Lemmy, have heard of it.
Agreed. It’s just really hard to get the word out for something like that, and especially when there’s a deadline.
