Having grown up on livejournal, tumblr really was the closest in experience and culture to how it was then. reddit text posts were actually closest appearance to a livejournal post for quite a while but by the time that was added everyone were comfortable on tumblr, and following users in reddit were added even later.
Lemmy - if instead of aggregating links from community is instead only a chronological feed of text posts including picture in the posts, and only from followed users - and kudos were only number that does not change any placement.
But also tagging - tagging is really important the way it really is not on lemmy or reddit. Not sure if combining reblogs and reblog chains from tumblr can be added, but have that all and - perfect.
I don't know what i'm writing - this is a ramble of unhappiness because tumblr just changed its dashboard setting less than an hour ago. And all signs point out to them messing with reblog chain soon which would make a lot of tumblr users unhappy, nothing else actually does reblogging the way it does.
Because the update
really is
going on well
hah. so tired. not expecting to spend 2023 rebuilding all online identity.
I am curious, I know this is an old post, but did you ever find anything that fit the bill? I have been looking for something similar as well and have zero programming skills to make my own (with blackjack)