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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Daz@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

You can already create a community for your blog and use the setting "only mods can post". That should be all you need in terms of functionality.

[–] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 3 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.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

iirc the lemmy developers wanted to implement this, I suggest searching for an issue if you didn't find any open one, don't make a fork just for that, that could be a security risk. better to put it upstream.

[–] KaKi87@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] KaKi87@sh.itjust.works 2 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 ?

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] KaKi87@sh.itjust.works 1 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.

[–] vacuumpizzas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] KaKi87@sh.itjust.works 0 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.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, that's too bad.

[–] KaKi87@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it.

[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i think blogging works good enough with the current system, speaking from personal experience. The main problem being lackluster updates for the lemmur app, but it's made by a different developer so... not much to do other than complain. Tho this could be a good feature for the lemmur app as it is made for phones.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmur's development has been abandoned.

The only current android app that I'm aware of is the one I made, Jerboa.

You can see the current apps here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps

[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thanks for letting me know, do you know which app is kept the most up-to date?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

There's only one for android, that's jerboa.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Jerboa

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