Is there some way to post to my own profile?
Is there some way to post to my own profile?
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 @[email protected], 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.
I can't help you but I'd be interested in reading your blog when you have it set up, so keep us updated.
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! 😆
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
Calckey?
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.
https://paper.wf/ looked like a really neat way to have fediverse microblog.