Is this a frowned upon practice or something that doesn’t matter?
I doubt anyone would care if you did that, but it does sound like you’d get more use out of joining https://kbin.social/. They are part of the federated universe and have a dedicated microblog section.
You can also join fedia.io or readit.buzz, both are very stable kbin instances
i was thinking the same. I also saw paper.wf talked about as a real blog, but i think its pretty limited at the moment
Wordpress has an ActivityPub plugin if people want a full-featured blog on the fediverse. AFAIK is only works if you’re self-hosting Wordpress, though.
You can do it, I don’t think most admins would find issue with that.
But I believe Mastodon would work better as a blog.
Yeah I agree with the Mastodon suggestion. Lemmy would work but Mastodon probably makes more sense.
How would you do that? Each and every Toot is isolated and a far distance away from the “blog post from yesterday” - there is no blog roll or similar. (Yes, tags may help to find all of your blog posts, but…)
Here in #kbin you would create your own unique magazine - with your own rules. And you can enforce the rules because you are (the only) moderator. In a magazine you get an index page with a list of your blog posts for example.
Perhaps I should try it… if only I had topics to put into a blog… :-)
Have fun!
Up until now most of my research had said that kbin was basically Lemmy, but different. After some more research and looking through other comments you are definitely correct.
Interesting idea. I feel like in principle it shouldn’t matter, but maybe people who like to review “local” instance traffic wouldn’t want to see blogs. I don’t know.
I do know a nice in-between solution would be hosting your own Lemmy instance if you have a penchant for technology.
Overall I think it makes sense to do it!
More content is probly good content right now. Ive been going around treating comments like my own personal journal Makin a fool out of myself lol. Id probly sub to this. F it.
How bout like a “life story in under xx amount of words” community? I’d dig that too.
I’d like the ability to post on our own profiles. you could do things that way if that was added
I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to. You sort of get comments built in for free!
You could mark a community as read only except for mods too.
One thing to keep in mind though is that the urls are usually ids instead of something more seo friendly if you care about that.
You might like kbin better. It’s like a hybrid of Lemmy and Mastodon.
Join on fedia.io or readit.buzz, both very stable kbin instances
I say go for it if you want to, people have the ability to block or subscribe to content they do or don’t want to see
I would post on something like substack and then post those as links, personally. Someone mentioned Mastodon but that’s a micro blogging site so posting a full blog there directly is hard.
Keep in mind if you start a community you will have to moderate it or find helper mods.
Something people seem to forget a lot when talking about these sorts of things is that there’s multiple publishing and macroblogging fediverse servers…
You can set a community so that only moderators can post to them.
IIRC, people created subreddits and used them as personal blogs. So I don’t see why you can’t create a blog/community here. I don’t understand why people are suggesting Mastodon to do that. I thought there was a word limit per post.
Some instances of Mastodon have a very large character limit (don’t know if there are instances without limits).
Edit: just pointing out, not disagreeing
Posting from mastodon.social, character limit here is 500. Definitely don’t recommend this instance for a personal blog.
You could check out Calckey.social which has a limit of 4000 characters I believe. Maybe that is better for personal blog?
Infosec Exchange is an 11,000 character limit :)
Wow okay that’s a lot! Might have to migrate my mastodon account there. Thanks for the tip!
