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Isn't Tumblr one of the last few good sites?
The name makes me think of Warfarin, not a good association imo.
Idk, keeps Tumblr-esque content from coagulating around one service, facilitating flow of content to other federated services?
I can dig it.
Same thing I thought of too, I mean it can also be a medication but it's definitely not what I'd name it after
idk why but I really hate that mascot. Something about the eyebrows and the way he's lookin' at me...
Its smug aura mocks me
Very evil vibes
I can't say that I like either the project name or the mascot.
I mean, it self-identifies as a hellsite. I think they are making some active decisions to make sure their appeal is not too broad. Probably not a bad idea honestly, as long as a large user base is not a goal in its own right.
It's less the design itself and more that it makes the entire proposition seem like a flash game portal circa 2006, so it just screams "stay away" at unsafe volumes. It's not even a bad drawing, it's just branding the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Flash games tended to use vector art. This uses some flat color areas, but I'm pretty sure that that's hand-drawn raster.
I didn't say it looks like a flash game, I said it looks like the logo for a flash game portal.
Bug hater.
~~Bug~~ Feature hater
He's not going to murder you but....
I love to see the diversity of software increase. Once we clone all the major ones we can start innovating to the point where you have something completely new and bespoke and that will be really exciting
I think the communication between the different platforms in itself is also something new and exciting that is brought to the table. Like when a comment on Lemmy suddenly starts making the rounds on Mastodon because it works well as a stand-alone toot.
I also like the potential for services to evolve more naturally. I honestly don't think Mastodon is all that similar to Twitter, or PieFed all that similar to Reddit. Sure, they started out as similar concepts, but they develop in pretty different directions.
It integrates with Mastodon and Bluesky if any you even care 🥺
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.
It'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.
Character 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
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.
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