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Gao@spillingdown Dreamwidth is also long form posting with lots of fandom activity, though I could see why some wouldn't consider it "like Tumblr", it sure has a different feel.
@LeGaosaure I was not able to really stick to Dreamwidth 
I like it but I don't like posting in it. Somehow I seem to mess up my text formatting every time, so anything text heavy I'd rather just post on my website's blog. I do really enjoy it for the way it's used for events though, as a hub for info or as the place to participate.
I'm unfortunately more of a pictures artist than a writer and I don't have a lot of fun doing that on DW :(
@spillingdown Valid, not every website can be a good fit for everyone! At least you got to try and know how you *personally* feel about this one! =)
Kochava 🪬Wafrn! It’s the instance I’m replying from. It’s intentionally tumblr-like, with a few tweaks.
mashimero@spillingdown @hadeantaiga I’ve just heard of this recently and been wanting to look into it! Their site guides made me think t was more twitter/bluesky like though. Do you find that’s not the case?
I do not find it to be twittery or bksy-like. It was intentionally built to be like Tumblr, which means you see replies to posts in-line on your dash. You can also add tags in a more natural way like you can on Tumblr. You also see ALL the replies and likes/reactions to your post when you click on it, so you never lose a conversation thread. All of that makes it not like twitter/bsky.
Also, on top of that, there isn't a tiny character-count post-limit like there is on twitter/bsky, so you can write nice long posts with paragraphs exactly as you would do on Tumblr.
@hadeantaiga @spillingdown good to know! I admit I found their guide and screenshots to be not very helpful in trying to figure out the UI of things, but this helps ty!
@hadeantaiga @mashimero thanks for the visual example!
Sorry for potentially silly questions 🙇:
Does wafrn have a public timeline shared by the server or do you build it from zero by following people? If I "reblogged" my art from this account to a wafrn account would that appear like a normal post with new tags of my choice like on Tumblr I guess?
So there are three feeds. There’s your personal feed that you build from scratch. Then there is a public wafrn feed you can go look at which contains all public posts made to the server. Then, finally, there is a feed made up of several like-minded servers!
And yes, if you reblog a post onto wafrn it will show up over here as a post. You can add tags, though the way tags work is you have to add then through a Reply. If you only add tags, it’ll be an empty reply with the tags at the bottom. Here on wafrn that’ll display fine, but for folks elsewhere they’ll just see your empty reply with tags but they’d have to click through to see the original post…
But also, they’ll only see your reply if they have “see replies” turned on for their feeds. Some people turn that off. So the only way they’d ever see the original art is if you directly reblogged it without adding a reply. This isn’t wafrn’s fault, that’s a problem with how mastodon and other micro-blogging platforms like bsky work. People using those platforms are kinda used to it though.
@hadeantaiga thank you so much for your detailed answers ❤️ one last question if it's ok, have you encountered quote retoots on wafrn now that mastodon implemented them? If so, how's that look on wafrn's side?
