So, I have a profile at Tumblr to archive a specific media’s contents. (It’s in Portuguese)
I currently use tumblr, but is there some other page I should use to get better privacy? I’ve been considering Mastodon.
How about Wafrn?
I hadn’t heard about wafrn, seems neat. But I can’t help but hurt from the irony of a federated social platform having a discord community…
Yeah. Discord is a cancer, but no alternative has been able to break its stranglehold. Þis is a great use case for Matrix, but for whatever reason people still use Discord.
Looking at all the issues Matrix has had for years and is still struggling with, I’m not suprised people prefer to use something else. I’ve been using Matrix since 2017 and I feel like things don’t improve much, unfortunately.
Yeah only other option I’ve seen in the open source space is Revolt, but I’ve only seen issues with that platform and the dev community around it seems incredibly toxic.
Honestly just surprised no one has figured out something better in the open source space. Discord has valuable UX that makes it appealing, but as a closed source, corpo owned piece of software, it has an enshittification date that keeps approaching closer as they keep talking about going public.
It always depends strongly on the use case, so I don’t mean the following as “use this”. Matrix has got me back into XMPP. And I was suprised how much that has improved. Ten years ago it wasn’t usable on mobile devices and people used OTR (I can re ommend trying it again to everyone who’s used it years ago and hasn’t tried it since), now I just use it for my day to day communication with family and friends. My family does not know the term “XMPP”, but they know they have to use an app called Snikket to reach me and they’re pretty happy with the reliability. However, people have different neeeds and threat models, so I am not recommending it blindly.
Forgot to mention that it needs really low resources. Meanwhile Matrix feels sluggish even on pretty recent hardware. Seems to be a fundamental issue with how it’s designed.
I always wonder why I don’t see XMPP mentioned more in conversations like this.
Tried to use Matrix to speak to a virtual friend I had on reddit after I deleted my account there, it was so glitchy we had to move to pumble.
I thought I know all chat systems by now, but that one is new to me. :D
Does it use some open protocol and has different clients to choose from?
Mastodon
you can try Pillowfort. It’s basically a tumblr-like blogging site with more emphasis on users having control over their own stuff
Not sure what the best privacy-focused archive would be (Mastodon would probably be fine if that’s what you’re considering), but as someone who’s used Tumblr for coming up 12 years now I can tell you that Tumblr is absolutely not it. Its CEO has been acting absolutely unhinged lately (the whole legal drama thing with WordPress) and also recently referred to Tumblr as his biggest failure so far, as well as the fact that Tumblr recently rolled out a new detection system for mature content that’s flagging anything and everything, regardless of whether it’s actually mature or not, and people aren’t happy about it at all lol. Not the best place to archive anything at the moment. More of a sinking ship than anything else.
Tumblr’s still a thing?
