I’m looking for a way to sort of blog on Lemmy. On Reddit I could do it by posting to my own profile (note: not editing my own profile, rather literally creating a post and assigning it to my profile). I doubt anyone ever read them, but they were just stuff about what I was doing that didn’t really belong in any particular subreddit.
For example, I want to write about my take on the different Fediverse iterations I’ve set up, on what works and what doesn’t. I could post that to a Technology community, I suppose, but I don’t think it really belongs there. This is more of a status report on my thoughts than anything else.
I’ve heard that kbin allows microblogging, but kbin is INCREDIBLY laggy so far. I’m more comfortable here. So…is it possible?
I think the best solution is to make your own community and disallow non-mods to post there. Then you could make posts to your heart’s content. I know beehaw doesn’t allow users to make comms, but you could ask them to make it on your behalf. If they say no, gimme a shout and I’ll set one up on sh.itjust.works, mod you and unmod myself.
Not an admin but longtime user and moderator here. I think it’s pretty unlikely that we would create communities for individual users to blog in, that would intro a lot of clutter. That said @BobQuasit@beehaw.org, we would be happy to have your posts in Technology or maybe Chat if you felt they were a little more rambly, but if you want to try something on another instance or maybe Mastodon, that’s good too.
Calckey?
I don’t know anything about that!
maybe something more like mastodon is the solution? I’ve been on reddit for over a decade and have never heard of anyone using it as you describe so I’m not sure if that’s a functionality to expect here. mastodon allows you to follow individual people rather than communities and publish to your followers
Can’t we follow individual people here on Lemmy?
You can follow a Lemmy account from Mastodon, but afaik there’s no following users on Lemmy from Lemmy.
That’s a feature that should be added to Lemmy, I think. I liked having the option to follow the posts and comments of certain people on Reddit. It was useful!
Which makes me wonder if we have the option to block users, too? That was even more valuable. There were a lot of people I ended up blocking on Reddit.
You can block people. I think there’s also a community block but I’m not sure if it’s working.
I can’t help you but I’d be interested in reading your blog when you have it set up, so keep us updated.
Thanks! I have old blogs all over the place. I actually created a blog of sorts on my website back before blogging was a thing; that’s still up, although I haven’t updated it in years. Had a LiveJournal; that’s still up too, although I moved to Dreamwidth when LJ went bigoted. Unfortunately pretty much everyone I knew on LJ/DW is either dead or inactive. I have a few Blogger blogs, but none of them is active apart from my political one, which I only post to because I know nobody reads it (okay, one guy does at least occasionally, but he’s not the critical type). It’s kind of like whispering into a hole “Midas has the ears of an ass!”, except not as effective.
I’m BobQuasit@bookwyrm.social on Bookwyrm. I don’t know if you can see the direct message I posted there, but I expect that any posts I make there will just be about books.
I just discovered that kbin doesn’t have the option to post blog entries just for yourself; you have to assign them to a community. So that’s out.
I could post to Mastodon, but as I recall there’s a character limit. And I’m a chatterbox, as you can see. So…that. 😔
Here’s a link to the VERY old blog-like posts on my tabletop RPG site:
Pete’s Roleplaying & RuneQuest - Chatter
I’ll dig up my Dreamwidth journal link, if you like. But I’m pretty boring! 😆
https://paper.wf/ looked like a really neat way to have fediverse microblog.
It does! Although I wish I didn’t have to create yet another Fediverse account to use it. As it stands I have Lemmy on Beehaw (with the possibility of having to find a second instance as well if Beehaw blocks anything I’m interested in), kbin, Bookwyrm (which I quite like), and Mastodon. It’s getting to be a lot!
Follow-up, Bookwyrm allows you to post “Direct Messages” which pretty much seem to be exactly what I was looking for. Except I think they might be private only, i.e. only I can see them?
Still waiting for kbin to be usable so I can see if something there would work.
Maybe Squabbles? Seems to be kind of a hybrid Twitter/reddit thing with profiles and whatnot. Still part of the Fediverse, so you can continue to post wherever, I think.