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, while if you don’t have any followers or don’t have the followers button enabled not a lot of people will see your post, 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
lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile
Submitted 1 year ago by adrianhooves@lemmy.today to fediverse@lemmy.world
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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 1 year ago
“get your own fricking tots!!!”
recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oooh ooh oooh, what if they made a ‘top 8 friends’ list you could post on your profile?
viking@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I thought it was just onlyfans spambots doing this crap, hoping you’d stalk a profile.
What’s the actual point?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Blogging and posting things that don’t fit anywhere else.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would you want to do that? Like what’s the point?
ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
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.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Isn’t that kind of what mbin does? With Magazines as communities and Microblog for more blog style content
Blaze@feddit.org 1 year ago
fedia.io for people who want to give it a try
github.com/jwr1/interstellar for an app
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
Blaze@feddit.org 1 year ago
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
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s called a blog, and it’s not part of the Lemmy model. You might like Mastodon, though.
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
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.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The thing is, mbin is right there if you want that kimd of functionality. There isn’t really a reason why everything needs to evolve into omni-applications. It’s better to have a broad ecosystem that has something for everyone, rather than a monopoly that’s servibg everyone a compromise.
Just look at the Twitter mugrations in 2022, and the clammor for quote posts. Misskey was right there, giving them exactly what they wanted, but you couldn’t speak the name of anything that wasn’t “mastodon” because everyone is brand focused and context blind.
What OP wants exists. It’s right there. It’s just not named Lemmy.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 year ago
It's nit the same, but I've seen people create a community for that. You can call it like your username and link it in your bio.
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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
ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ll be an admin and you can only allow admins. Like how Lemmy world announcement does. You can only comment
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
I also missed being able to just self-post onto my own profile, which is why I made !pillow_talk@lemmy.world.
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 1 year ago
oh cool interesting thanks!!