Davy JonesTIL there's a federated Tumblr alternative called WAFRN
Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t Tumblr just another microblogging site? Wouldn’t mastodon be a viable alternative?
Not that in complaining that there’s another fediverse software, just trying to understand what is the difference or if it’s just splitting hairs.
MudManIt's all just little text packets, this place included.
But hey, that's all social media. The slight differences in threading, text limits, media embeds and share mechanics do matter.
They do, absolutely. But what are those differences between Twitter and Tumblr? I thought it was just a different CSS.
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Tumblr keeps quoted post above your post, just the way it should be.
Oh. Yeah, the few times I’ve been directed at Twitter threads, it felt like having an aneurism.
Twitter has an aggressive character limit, a focus on a streaming feed and historically it's been built on fast, trending content updated in real time via reposts and this sort of atomized discussion using unthreaded quotes.
Tumblr has changed a bunch trying to stay relevant in a MySpacey kinda way, but it's ultimately more of a blog platform where the main post is expected to be bulkier and more readable while the threaded responses are framed as more of a comments section you don't even get to see in full by default, so it more or less splits the difference between Twitter and Reddit, or between Masto and here.
"A different CSS" can impact how you interact with things a bunch, along with how you present trends and follows. Which I guess was my original point.
I Cast FistCharacter limit on the posts is a big difference, too. Tumblr had lots of short stories and long rants in a single post. You could also post several images in a single post, dunno what was/is twitter’s limit