I created wafrn 4 years ago, conected it to fedi 3 years ago. And conected it to bsky a bit more than a year ago. The bsky conection is optional.

When threads was coming, I wrote some code for making federation per user opt in. Blocked them anyway when “its ok to harrass trans people “ leak of the rules.

Wafrn is a tumblr inspired software, the ui is different to most fedi software

Ive heard its cool.

Tumblr inspired software

wafrn

wafrn - Wafrn is a federated social media inspired by tumblr. Join us and have fun

Codeberg.org (codeberg.org)

You can very much run it yourself, though there's a hosted app.

It's the good old Embrace-Extend-Extinguish strategy where they'll embrace existing community-run software, then extend and modify it to the point where the experience for users of all other software is diminished, so they can eventually pull the plug and kill the original project.

Like the Browser Wars where the open and free HTML protocol was abused by browsers to the point where some websites were unusable if you weren't using the "correct" browser.

I am on GoToSocial myself and I like Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube and all the other Fediverse-first software. I embrace software diversity in the Fediverse. I just don't like corporations like Bluesky or Instagram trying to cosy up to the Fediverse with their own closed ecosystems in an attempt to fragment it.

the whole purpose of having this protocol is so you can have different softwares interoperate