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by jaspax 1234 days ago
> You repost good stuff, so a link can travel several hops to someone, but it must have been filtered through a friend.

This is exactly how Tumblr works, and is a big part of why Tumblr is actually a great social network for the people who have stuck it out there.
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hot_gril 1234 days ago
I tried Tumblr, and it felt like a way better version of Twitter. Had me follow some trending accounts for a few topics. Then I get three feeds, default being those I follow, others being the algo or my tags. I can like, share, or repost stuff. The UI is clean, it doesn't lag my laptop, and signup took me about 1/3 the time vs signing up for Twitter.

So the social difference from Twitter is they kept the chrono following-only feed? It's nice but not what I envisioned for Recents. I wanted to avoid any kind of global "trending" aspect and focus all interaction on reposts. I'm probably reinventing a wheel somewhere, but not one that I've seen.

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rpastuszak 1234 days ago
Can't wait for ActivityPub support so I can control the UX better with a different client.

Come to think of it, this what User Agents were supposed to be, but we just added a few more layers on top (for that sweet sweet ad revenue juice), and now are stripping some of it with the likes of Mastodon.

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leppr 1234 days ago
Tumblr was very close to the perfect social media network. It's a shame it succumbed to corporate greed after the Yahoo acquisition. I really hope someone manages to recreate it as a decentralized protocol
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jasonlotito 1233 days ago
It's no longer owned by Yahoo! but by Automattic (WordPress) now. As for decentralized, they've posted recently about their intent to support ActivityPub.
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leppr 1233 days ago
The problem is not about the broadcast capabilities, they already support RSS.

The problem is about their content censoring. I don't reckon Automattic reversed the "sexually explicit" purge initiated by Yahoo. I'm not interested in a social network that censors ~30% [1] of the global art production. For now Twitter is the better place for relatively free content sharing.

[1]: Number pulled out of my hat, but the human nude being the most popular drawing subject ever, I wouldn't be surprised if this is close to reality.

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