lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile
lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile
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, if you don't have any followers or don't have the followers button enabled not a lot of people will see your post, but 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
edit: there were a few grammar mistakes,i'm sorry!!!
It's not the same, but I've seen people create a community for that. As a workaround. You can call it like your username and link it in your bio.
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
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.
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.
Isn’t that kind of what mbin does? With Magazines as communities and Microblog for more blog style content
https://fedia.io for people who want to give it a try
https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar for an app
kinda, but you still have to put the microblogs in a community. it's a little odd but I like it.
Why would you want to do that? Like what's the point?
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.
That's called a blog, and it's not part of the Lemmy model. You might like Mastodon, though.
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.
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.
Oooh ooh oooh, what if they made a 'top 8 friends' list you could post on your profile?
I use mbin and it does threads and microblogs. it's a little janky at times and there is only one app (interstellar, android) but I like it.
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.
totes, peepz
*toats
I thought it was just onlyfans spambots doing this crap, hoping you'd stalk a profile.
What's the actual point?
Blogging and posting things that don't fit anywhere else.
I also missed being able to just self-post onto my own profile, which is why I made !pillow_talk@lemmy.world. Use it as a catch-all for anything you want. The only rules are not to break the site rules.
oh cool interesting thanks!!
Tots
(Napoleon Dynamite)
"get your own fricking tots!!!"