Hmm. Dows Mastodon work as an alternative to Tumblr, for those of you who use Tumblr? Or is there something missing? :/
@Angle that triggers some interesting thoughts.
I haven’t used Tumblr since the old days but back then it was more of a complete blogging platform than this is.
That said, using masto as a more full-featured blog is intriguing. With a little better rich text and embedding maybe it could get there?
I’d love to have a blog with intrinsic federation features like this.
@elomatreb @jjg @Angle I reeeeally want a federated tumblr workalike. A lot of the tumblr UX is a good fit for the current reality of decentralized social media - namely, it's on the bleeding edge, thus you're likely to meet people on such networks by shared interest, rather than by other mechanisms a la Facebook. I see a lot of tumblrish usage of Diaspora, for example, despite its Facebookish UI, I think for this reason. I want a decentralized network that's highly visual but NOT Instagram.
@deutrino @elomatreb @jjg How easy do you think it would be to add this functionality to Mastodon? Or is that trying to pack too much functionality into one application? :/
@Angle @elomatreb @jjg I think it would be best with a different UI and possibly not even full overlap with the ostatus-mastodon fediverse. Why? The UX that generally evolves on platforms based on this network is fundamentally Twitter-like. One part of the tumblr UX which is actually pretty important to the overall experience is the additive reblog-to-converse paradigm. People do converse and have Discourse👌, but less, and #aesthetic/art/meme tumblr thrives with a little less conversation.