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

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

two back-to-back W.A.F.R.N. posts by the same user that read "rent lowering nsfw boosts" and "gotta keed the tech bros at bay"

I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

It was the idea from the start

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 9 hours ago

wow new hellsite!!

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes 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

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

It is Blogger that wanted to become twitter and achieved neither

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Sure would be nice if the fediverse realized that part of what is holding back adoption is your nonsensical gen alpha service names.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

One of the biggest issues with fediverse platforms is poor presentation. This is another good example of that.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

HIRE A DESIGNER, HE SAYS

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Its intentional.

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Well this is damned exciting.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 5 points 18 hours 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

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Why do these kind of things always have random-name-generator names? Just name it something sane.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 13 hours ago

Its name stands for "We Allow Female Representing Nipples", based on the tumblr policy of banning Female Representing Nipples.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 13 hours ago

If everything was named "Something Sane" how would we tell different things apart?

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dil@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What do you have against e I o u and sometimes y?

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

wafrn stands for We Allow Female Representing Nipples in reference to 2018 tumblr porn ban

[–] traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

err wasn't the tumblr verbiage "female presenting nipples"?

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

that is correct but I already bought the domain when I realized that and waprn doesnt sound as well

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

WAP right now

[–] lenz@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

doesnt sounds well

[–] dedconfigurator@pawb.social 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

for safety reasons on my side yeah sorry

[–] Balerion6@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Thank god. I hate being on websites with kids.

[–] skribe@aussie.zone 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Also includes Doom in the settings. Mouse didn't work for me though.

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

its old doom keyboard only

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i love it but Please choose a name that can be pronounced

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

no. it means "we allow female representing nipples". Also there is no canonica way of pronunciating it

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Seems pretty easy? Wayfern?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] Lampadaire_raclette@jlai.lu 3 points 18 hours ago

Just registered !

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago
[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

any plans to appease the cohost crowd and allow css in posts?

[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

we allow some css in posts

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You had me at reticulating splines.

e. Registrations over VPN are disabled. Pause it while registering or you'll have to spend an entire minute rewriting the stuff D=

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] gabboman@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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