Hmm. Dows Mastodon work as an alternative to Tumblr, for those of you who use Tumblr? Or is there something missing? :/
@Angle Seems to be more of an alternative to Twitter, Tumblr is more long form blogging. I use both Twitter and Tumblr.
@Kaelyrhn Mmm, gotcha. Do you think Mastodon could replace that functionality? Or would it just be awkward without heavily reworking the UI?
@Angle @MariBari Really long posts might make the current Mastodon UI awkward. That's really the only functionality I think Tumblr have that Mastodon doesn't. Though they might do them different they both have commenting, liking, and sharing, but so does Twitter and Facebook.
And yeah as @MariBari said embedded media is something Tumblr is good at. I also like the way of formatting posts.
Mastodon is more micro-blogging, like Twitter.
That's was long.
@Kaelyrhn @Angle Definitely. Now, if Mastodon had a federated sister site for proper blogging, then we'd be off to the races.
...Then again, it'd be much easier to just make a "real blog" on Wordpress or something at that point. Since a blog hosted on its own domain is basically the same functionality. 
@Angle @Kaelyrhn @MariBari Hey, we used Diaspora a million years ago! @InspectorCaracal ran his own pod at some point, the nerd
The idea was pretty good but the community was terrible and creepy, and because Twitter didn't suck yet (this was what, 2010?), none of us got really invested...
@Heliodora @InspectorCaracal @MariBari @Kaelyrhn @Angle I'm currently trying out hubzilla which is another federated social network on a manifestation run by @woozle
This is me there https://hub.iseeamess.com/channel/becka?f=&jsdisabled=0
@Shutsumon @Heliodora @InspectorCaracal @MariBari @Kaelyrhn @woozle Hmm, Firefox won't let me access it cause the ssl certificate's invalid. I've heard about hubzilla though - it good? :/
@Angle @Heliodora @InspectorCaracal @MariBari @Kaelyrhn @woozle I like the functionality but the community is still very small
@Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora @Angle Seems kinda like Facebook with more functionality?
@Kaelyrhn @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora Yup, exactly. It's a little odd in that it's halfway between facebook and tumblr - on the one hand, it's supposed to be a site where you follow people who share your interests, but on the other, it's also supposed to be a facebook substitute, so. :/
@Kaelyrhn @Angle @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora it aimed to be a Facebook workalike, but because it only attracted bleeding-edge techies, privacy nerds, and the political fringes, people ended up assorting by interest and using it like tumblr but with comments. Say, that userbase sounds familiar 🤔
@Kaelyrhn @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora @deutrino Eh, you forgot the gay curries and random shitposters. :V
@Angle @Kaelyrhn @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora gay curries? Sounds hot 😂🌶️🌶️
@Kaelyrhn @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora @deutrino The hottest. :V
@deutrino @Angle @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora That does sound pretty cool and attractive. My problem is choosing a node/server/instance to initially join Where do I go? Which interest do I want to focus on? Stuff like that. I followed a friend to my instance here so I kinda cheated :P
@deutrino @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora @Kaelyrhn Eh, diaspora seems pretty much the same all over. I've an account on diasp.org, or you want to follow me there. XD
@Angle @deutrino @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora
Ah stop seducing me with your attractive social media wares! :P
@deutrino @Kaelyrhn @Angle @Shutsumon @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora
I've actually never seen it used like Tumblr. I suppose that's doable by resharing a reshare? (On G+, you only get the original post's contents, not the contents of any reshare-post -- so if that works on HZ, it's a bonus.)
@woozle you can reshare a reshare but I don't think you can glom stuff on to the bottom of it like on tumblr. It's more that people are definitely resharing reshares and also assorting into networks of users by common interest. Follow the right people and your feed gets fairly well tuned to your interests. You could say all contemporary social media is like this but I find tumblr to be particularly good at it and people do use diaspora in a similar way.
Lack of Tumblr emulation verified:
@Angle @Kaelyrhn @Shutsumon @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora
I mean, it seems like the core is your basic generic social network. You make posts, posts get comments. You can reshare posts and add your own comments in the reshare. You can set up groups and restrict write or read access. Et cetera.
Maybe I should do a summary document.
(There's some other stuff off to the side (wiki-like documents and static HTML), but I'm not yet sure how useful those are and the UI needs work.)
@Angle @Shutsumon @woozle @MariBari @InspectorCaracal @Heliodora Trying to be too many things?
That's part of why I like Mastodon, it knows what it wants to be and just does it.