Having grown up on livejournal, tumblr really was the closest in experience and culture to how it was then. reddit text posts were actually closest appearance to a livejournal post for quite a while but by the time that was added everyone were comfortable on tumblr, and following users in reddit were added even later.

Lemmy - if instead of aggregating links from community is instead only a chronological feed of text posts including picture in the posts, and only from followed users - and kudos were only number that does not change any placement.

But also tagging - tagging is really important the way it really is not on lemmy or reddit. Not sure if combining reblogs and reblog chains from tumblr can be added, but have that all and - perfect.

I don’t know what i’m writing - this is a ramble of unhappiness because tumblr just changed its dashboard setting less than an hour ago. And all signs point out to them messing with reblog chain soon which would make a lot of tumblr users unhappy, nothing else actually does reblogging the way it does.

Because the update

really is

going on well

hah. so tired. not expecting to spend 2023 rebuilding all online identity.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    All that being said … I can see lemmy head in that direction with features like this …

    • Each user has a “personal community” for which they’re the only person who can write posts.
      • The names and addresses of these communities would have to relate back to the user’s handle in some way. Maybe lemmy.ml/c/user using the /c/ rather than the usual /u/?
    • Lemmy users can follow these communities like they would any other
    • Mastodon and other users can follow a lemmy user’s personal community if they just want their personal posts, or follow the user directly for everything they post (which they can do now actually)
    • Lemmy provides user defined community grouping which then allows you to group users’ personal communities into helpful lists based on interests etc
    • The above combined with the various sorting features provides a much better feed than what exists currently on mastodon etc
    • Lemmy could go even further and allow each user to have more than one personal community for different purposes. Like one for long form blogs, and another for microblogs.
      • The names/addresses of these might create problems? Maybe lemmy.ml/c/user/blog and lemmy.ml/c/user/microblog??