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.

@MariBari @Angle There's Diaspora, the decentralised Facebook, that might be a sort of sister to Mastodon, and might allow longer blogging? Dunno I haven't seen it.

@Kaelyrhn @MariBari Mmm, I use Diaspora. Doesn't have much of a user base at the moment, but I think it would support that functionality pretty well? :/

@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. :/

@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.

@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