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.

  • @nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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    141 year 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.

  • @wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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    31 year 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.

  • 10_0
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    11 year ago

    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.