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Individual blogging as a possible feature for Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would Lemmy be a good fit for adding individual "blogging" as a feature? What I mean is the ability for a user to create posts tied to their account instead of a specific community. The default Lemmy Frontend/webapp has all the basic features that would normally make up a blog: ability to make posts, markdown editor, hell even replies that you normally need to disable on blogs because of spam. I can imagine adding a section next to the "Communities" button that says "Blogs" where you could browse users blogs. Not sure if you'd want to federate the blogs but something I'm thinking about.

Not asking this as a feature request on the part of the developers. This should be something I implement myself. But I thought I'd throw the idea out in the wild and see if folks could either tell me "why not" or point out what might be problematic with this.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is like twitter. Might be closer to what you are looking for if you're thinking small amount of words. If your looking for blogging. Then there are others out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm also interested in using Lemmy as a blog. Did you explore this further ? Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard that kbin has better microblogging support than Lemmy. Have you tried kbin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by better microblogging support ?

By the way, microblogging ≠ blogging. Speaking of which, Lemmy's post character limit is 50K. What's Kbin's ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No idea. I'm not even sure what blogging is, much less microblogging 😅

I'm more of a forum guy. But you've inspired me to learn.

It looks like https://writefreely.org/ might be the fediverse blogging platform you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m not even sure what blogging is, much less microblogging

It's simple, actually : blogging is posting large content, microblogging is posting short content (hence micro).

That's why Mastodon is microblogging, for example : because their character limit is 500.

https://writefreely.org/ might be the fediverse blogging platform you’re looking for

It would be, except it doesn't allow any interaction between authors and readers, making federation almost pointless, it also lacks attachments hosting and other blog stuff.

There's also Plume, which has slightly more features, but still lacks a lot, isn't actively developed and is currently suffering from massive spam.

So, to conclude, there currently isn't any interesting federated blogging platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would either Calckey or Misskey be a good fit for what you’re looking for?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please read the conversation : as long as it's described as microblogging then it's not a good fit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I wish you would be less passive aggressive, he's just trying to help...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, that's too bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it.

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