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Can lemmy be used as a blog (with comment section)? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by utopify_org@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I am looking for a fediverse solution for a blog and I tried it with writefreely, but it has some disadvantages I can't live with.

The most important one is, that it should be possible to communicate with people within the fediverse. People should be able to comment on every article with a fediverse account, like it is already possible between Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube and others. But comments aren't a thing with writefreely and this is sad.

After using Lemmy for a few days I just thought if it is possible to use it as a blog and ask on lemmys github if it is possible to restrict a group so only one person could post new articles, but all others can comment. And the answer is yes!

But would it be possible to use it as a blog?

Imagine I would have a group called "utopify.org - Research & Development" and would post current progress about a blog series and you can only comment on it. Would it be possible and would it be something you want to see on Lemmy or would this just be an abuse of the software.

If all of this is just a no-go, are there other ways in the fediverse to have a blog article, which can be shared on the fediverse and be commented on?

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[โ€“] altair222@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've wanted to make a mini-blog myself, seems like mastodon has a word limit that becomes a problem, so I looked into pleroma, and most pleroma instances have a 5000 character limit, which can be used for a blog-like page and has all the interactivity related features you desire, since its supposed to be like mastodon.

[โ€“] kujaw@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe try Hubzilla.

[โ€“] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

some mastodon servers have a higher character limit!

[โ€“] coldhotman@nrsk.no 2 points 2 years ago

The word limit is a setting in the config files, admins can set it to whatever. Glitch-soc is a fork of Mastodon that even has an interface to set the character limit. I think I just put in 50.000 IIRC.

[โ€“] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you show me your Pleroma blog? After I saw a few Pleroma sites I just found it weird and inconvenient and then I read about the war about Alex Gleason (creator of the Pleroma fronted soapbox) and the Pleroma community, which I found really absurd. That's why I went to Mastodon first.

[โ€“] altair222@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dont have a pleroma blog, I'm just saying that it does have a higher character limit, a much higher limit that may suit the needs for a mini blog. And its federated so mastodon users can also follow your account.

[โ€“] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh, ok, so you stick with Mastodon and didn't do a mini-blog at another place?

[โ€“] altair222@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didnt say that... All I said was that I was just recently looking for something exactly like you wanted and found that pleroma does that. That's all I said dude

[โ€“] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

oh, okay, thanks a lot.