Fediverse supports it nicely, it’s just that Mastodon is the most known fedi implementation, and it…

orteil42: > palant1r: > >> andmaybegayer: >> >>> it still makes me go insane that somehow no social media site bothers to implement interleaved text and images. Fediverse cannot support it broadly, Bluesky can’t handle it, Facebook can’t do it, Twitter can’t do it, fucking, LinkedIn doesn’t do this, somehow only Tumblr has this, and it barely even counts as a popular social media site. >> >> well you see we’re the new pdf > > i can’t overstate how much this used to be the default on blogging platforms. blogging used to involve as much mixed content as you felt like. the goofy defunct french blog platforms (Skyblog, U-blog) where i was making my first posts in 2004 had that. you could embed media or javascript or applets or anything you wanted. the reason this feels like a unique tumblr-only feature now is that rotten as it is tumblr is one of very few remaining blogging platforms in 2026. everything else is microblogging now. everything else is twitter now Fediverse supports it nicely, it’s just that Mastodon is the most known fedi implementation, and it delierately blocks these to look more like Twitter used to look. Wafrn for example explicitly supports this for example Bluesky on the other hand blocks this on the protocol level, so you’re still fucked there even if you’re not using the official client