i would ask that people leaving tumblr try to move somewhere with an rss feed so i can in theory find some kind of rss reader and follow everyone that way
also:
- it seems like this policy shouldn’t actually affect my blogs
- but i will still do backups anyway
- most alternate sites, even the distributed ones, seem like they kind of suck compared to tumblr in terms of features. they don’t have stuff like
- reblog chains
- easily browsable archives
- view a user’s tagged posts in [reverse] chrono order
- fun customizable user pages
- i can see why this one’s not supported, it’s probably a headache
maybe i should look at dreamwidth? i know it doesn’t make comments first-class the way tumblr does but it seems like a better fit for me than, like, a facebook-clone or a twitter-clone
It looks like you agree with me very well on what the best features of Tumblr are (except I don’t care very much about customizable user pages; I have literally never changed my blog background, this was what they gave me by default back in 2011).
I hope we can find something suitable for us, and I’ll make sure to let you, especially, know if I find it.
When I first started thinking about this after the first signs of a purge a few weeks ago, I wondered if maybe one could do some sort of Mastodon/DW hybrid, similar to the Tumblr/DW proposal [link; hmm, WordPress makes the early parts of long reblog-chains pretty unreadable, I’m going to have to do something about that; for now, here’s a Tumblr-hosted alternative link] a while back. Pleroma [link] might make the need for DW hosting of non-short posts unnecessary, but the idea could still come in handy.
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