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

  • gabboman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    391·
    9 months 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

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Well, tumblr died out in 2017 because they said “NO PORN!!!”

    And all the blogs died.

    It’s like Dr Cox said: “If you take all the porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left. www.bringbacktheporn.com and nobody would visit because it doesn’t have porn.”

    So. Does WAFRN have porn? And also…why are these things ALWAYS named with weird hard to pronounce names? Come see my new website Drufyflezak!

    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I always figured because the weird names have cheaper domain registrations. However wafrn is a pretty short name so, it probably is on the high end.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed ‘adult’ blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.

    What’s the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.

    For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that’s going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind’s worst elements.

    • gabboman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      its a fedi platform, shit will happen but we have blocked the worst of the wrost on fedi. And we also check registrations for vpns. Registration with vpn is not allowed for safety

  • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

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

    • gabboman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

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

    • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months 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

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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