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.

    • @imaqtpieA
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      10 months ago

      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
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        010 months ago

        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.

          • @KaKi87
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            010 months ago

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

            • @imaqtpieA
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              210 months ago

              I wish you would be less passive aggressive, he’s just trying to help…

        • @imaqtpieA
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          010 months ago

          Ok, that’s too bad.

          • @KaKi87
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            110 months ago

            Tell me about it.