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

Oh, the cert's bad? Shouldn't be... <checks> Still looks fine from here. What's the error?

@woozle "your connection is not private" NET::ERROR_CERT_NOT_VALID or some such. I can't copy paste it on my phone. XD

@Angle Maybe your phone doesn't recognize Let's Encrypt certs?

@woozle I get the same thing on my desktop though. And the rest of your site is fine, it's just that bit. :/

@Angle I can see the problem on my phone. Will track it down when I get back home in a couple of hours. Thanks for noting it earlier, btw :-)

@Angle I think I've got it pinned down to a problem with IPv6 access. I've updated the config in a way that *should* have fixed it, from past experience, but the SSL test service is still showing the same problem...

...although my phone now says it's fine.

What are you getting?

https://hub.iseeamess.com/