In many ways - several features are gone, several have been added. Some of the main ones, I guess, are federated forums (compatible with Lemmy/Piefed), federated blogs, an RSS feed, following hashtags, and customizable timelines. We’re also trying to make it easier for new users, with familiar terminology etc.

Thank you! :psi_hearts:

huh, I didn’t realize it had a paywall because Brave shows it just fine here…

yeah, you’re not wrong…

I found it funny that the page says “Give us your email to read the full story”

But what happens when a link target changes? For example, I’ve seen news articles change as the author gets new information. Might be an edge case, but a solution like this would always show the preview at the time of the initial post.

we’re also always open to suggestions, so if there’s any particular feature from Pillowfort that you’re missing, we’d seriously consider it, if it fits our direction. In any case I’d love to hear your feedback if you get around to trying it.

lol, I said this kinda jokingly in another comment, but you may actually want to try Catodon (disclaimer: I’m the maintainer), “the child of Mastodon and Lemmy” sounds pretty close to what we’re doing (among others)

I never heard of those to be described as close to Tumblr. If we’re suggesting nice fedi platforms in general, I would suggest Catodon, which I maintain 😁

I don’t know what to tell you, I never used any of those, but Wafrn is the one Fediverse platform that I know that presents itself as “Tumblr-inspired”. Don’t know if there are others, but this one’s the most popular for sure. It also connects with Bluesky.

I have not used it, but wafrn is supposed to be a federated tumblr alternative.

A custom emoji (used as a reaction here), perhaps they don’t work on piefed.

Thank you! Yes, I have already investigated these options and rejected automatic detection for them for the reasons you mention. Anyone can still suggest specific communities manually, through the suggestion form.

both implemented

Right - I have no idea how I forgot the Fediverse Observer! I think it’s because I have mostly used it for viewing microblogging software, so when I decided to build a threadiverse catalog, my mind only went to indexes specifically for the threadiverse. Adding it now, thanks!

Do you mean in Catodon? We don’t have a link because you can already search the Catalog’s index through Search and Explore in Catodon! It’s the button saying “More from the Fediverse” when the server’s search results end. But as we add more search options to the site, it might make sense. I’ll think about it when the initial suggestions and changes have settled.

Good ones, will work on them in the next days!

About the two servers, I don’t know - our crawler needs a few days to go through everything for the initial listing, so it might just not have gotten to them yet. But the best way is to use the form to suggest a community from each of these servers. which will introduce them to the catalog.

Thanks to everyone who replied! Most of the suggestions have been implemented and are live on the site. It’s great to see such positive feedback! :psi_happy:

Thanks, we added it to our sources!

Implemented =)