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devtesla wrote
mastodon is twitter-like so it's not going to let you post essays (unless you write them elsewhere and link them) and replies will show up on the timeline for people who follow you and the person you're replying to. there's no quoting posts either.
it does have a nice search though.
hollyhoppet wrote
As dt said mastodon is fairly twitter-y. I don't know if I really like that tbh but there isn't really anything around that's tumblr-like yet. There is one site called pillowfort that's in the work but for now it seems that they're in some sort of donate-and-get-a-registration beta so who knows where that'll go.
toasthaste wrote
yeah, I've been keeping an eye on pillowfort and I think odds are I'll just hold out for that. Heck, I might even be tempted to toss them the $5 it takes to get into the beta, depending on how fast tumblr disintegrates and whether I can convince myself to just read books instead.
hollyhoppet wrote
If you do lemme know i'll buy in too.
Also omg thing that nothing but tumblr does that you'll never be able to see anywhere else at least today is the glory of awful custom tumblr themes.
toasthaste wrote
How does mastodon's interface/functionality compare to tumblr's? There's a lot of things I like about how tumblr works including
Make any kind of post. Write a huge essay and embed images and videos throughout, no character limits or nothin. When you reblog something, you can add to it, and the version with the addition can itself be reblogged, and added to, etc etc. You can search your own blog by tag, which is SO so useful for organizing the thing. A way to reply to posts that doesn't make it pop up on your blog and make all your followers have to scroll past it. Probably other things? But those are the big ones that come to mind that are real important to me.