i don’t want to bring the big forum website that lead to the creation of lemmy (red**t), but that site lets you create posts for your own profile, like, it treats your own user wall as if it was a “subreddit” of its own and, if you don’t have any followers or don’t have the followers button enabled not a lot of people will see your post, but at least you can just sort of use it for posting interesting or casual stuff. lemmy should totally implement that please!!! can you do that on lemmy?? i tried but there’s not a way you can do it, i’ve been trying so if you know a way of creating posts on your profile, please let me know thank you
edit: there were a few grammar mistakes,i’m sorry!!!
I also missed being able to just self-post onto my own profile, which is why I made [email protected]. Use it as a catch-all for anything you want. The only rules are not to break the site rules.
oh cool interesting thanks!!
It’s not the same, but I’ve seen people create a community for that. As a workaround. You can call it like your username and link it in your bio.
that could work but that means anyone could join and post there right??? or is there a way to set a community private and make it so that only a specific person is allowed to post?? wait i think there is!!! maybe
You’ll be an
adminmod and you can only allowadminsmods. Like how Lemmy world announcement does. You can only commentMod, not admin.
Mod is community level, admin is server level.
Yes, you’re right
I am vehemently against it.
Just make a community. Build it, they will come.
Not everyone needs a personal board. When reddit did it it made me think of how discord does the same thing and all it does is muck up ux.
Just make a community. Build it, they will come.
This is exactly what I’ve done, but I must say that in the particular community’s case, it hasn’t been easy. We’re going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I’ve personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.
So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we’re not even that much of a niche.
Yes, there is definitely a limit to the “they will come” part.
It even applies to Lemmy as a whole, 44k monthly active users is nice, but you would expect more people for an ad-free alternative to Reddit with solid mobile apps
The Lemmysphere sure seems to get slammed a lot at places like r/RedditAlternatives. I wonder if possibly some of that is sockpuppet-stuff, as unlikely as that sounds. Still, more than ever we live in the age of misinformation and manipulation by opposition groups & monied interests, so the idea & practice is certainly on the table.
Unfortunately, there’s also the reputation of at least one of the primary Lemmy coders. Seems like the sooner Kbin, Mastodon, etc can get better integrated, the less notable that should be. *knock on wood*
That’s called a blog, and it’s not part of the Lemmy model. You might like Mastodon, though.
it’s not part of the Lemmy model.
It’s not part of the model yet. There is absolutely nothing stopping it from being implemented, and it could be very useful to do so.
This whole “Lemmy is only for doing this one thing, Mastodon is only for this other thing, Matrix is for this other thing” mentality is frankly short-sighted. There is a common standard that can allow application developers to implement multiple use-cases, we do not need separate accounts/services/clients for each of that.
If that were the case, we would never have webmail and everything would have to have its own specific client that could talk with only one specific server.
Isn’t that kind of what mbin does? With Magazines as communities and Microblog for more blog style content
https://fedia.io for people who want to give it a try
https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar for an app
kinda, but you still have to put the microblogs in a community. it’s a little odd but I like it.
Why would you want to do that? Like what’s the point?
Literally the last thing I would want from a link aggregator forum is facebook. I hated when reddit started shoehorning that dumb shit into their site and I hate that people are asking for it now.
I use mbin and it does threads and microblogs. it’s a little janky at times and there is only one app (interstellar, android) but I like it.
thanks for the suggestion, i may look into mbin later!!! it looks like a comfy fediverse platform!!!
nice. I should mention that the microblogs need to be put in a magazine (community) as well, but you can always just use the random one.
Yeah, that still seems weird to me. Does it connect the post in any way to the magazine (especially Lemmy communities), or just end up a hashtag if people read from a fedi microblog instance?
no idea, I mostly use it to be able to read microblogs and reply to them while still using threads primarily all on one account. my best guess is microblog-only things don’t see the community and threads-only things see it as a regular thread formatted like a microblog.
Oooh ooh oooh, what if they made a ‘top 8 friends’ list you could post on your profile?
You can register on an instance with a backend that combines the microblogging fediverse and the threadiverse (afaik: mbin, piefed, friendica), then you can both microblog and post to communities.
I thought it was just onlyfans spambots doing this crap, hoping you’d stalk a profile.
What’s the actual point?
Blogging and posting things that don’t fit anywhere else.
totes, peepz
*toats
Tots (Napoleon Dynamite)
“get your own fricking tots!!!”
