When I was at The Bad Place I had a sub just for me to post on.. anyone could read and comment, but only I could make a post. I used it kind of like a notebook, nothing personal like a diary. A fix I made for Gratuitous Space Battles crashing, a can opener I really liked, a commentary on when Reddit hired a pedophile and tried to cover it up, etc. Basically anything I wanted to make publicly available but didn't want to find/join a sub for.

The question is, is something like that possible in Lemmy without running my own instance? I know it's possible on a technical level, I'm asking about social and/or convention.

It's empty now but it was db2_ if you're curious

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[–] 29 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

Yes, you can make a community and then set it to be mod only posting. Then because you are the only mod it is your personal community.

Edit: Totally fine thing to do here. Anyone who doesn't want to see it would not subscribe or block it if they were particularly peeved.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Could you Lemmy some wisdom? Is there a way to only show post from communities I'm subscribed to?

    I'm using an android app called lift off, but if there's another option I'd probably switch.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Although you can make a personal Lemmy community as others have mentioned, I feel like Mastodon or Kbin might be better designed for that use-case?

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Sure can! Mine is !nemo@midwest.social, but so haven't populated it yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Kbin comes with a micro blog feature. A cool thing with the fediverse is that you could use Kbin to browse Lemmy (both are clone of that R social network)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Feel free to come over to waste-of.space to have your own personal space!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    > A fix I made for Gratuitous Space Battles crashing,

    Are you the guy who made this game? I bought the first GSB and liked it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Interesting idea. I did that on a Discord server that I set up...never occurred to me to do something similar on other platforms.

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