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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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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You could solve this with the same approach as lemmyBB. In other words, program a new frontend for Lemmy instead of the default lemmy-ui, and use it to render your site. It would connect to the Lemmy backend to fetch data, and then render it as HTML. This could be written in any language/framework you like, and display a real blog-like layout. This would allow you to set "Only moderators can post to this community" as default when a new community is created, and use different sort orders by default.

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't do front end for a very long time and stuff changed a lot, because I looked at lemmyBB and I have no idea what handlebars or cargos are, I might heard of Rust, but never used it. But at least CSS is still a thing...

Can you recommend a language or framework, which could be even interesting for employers (don't want to learn too exotic stuff) and it would be useful to work with this technology every day, so I will be faster to make something in my spare time.

I would be very interested in learning new stuff to make a new front end for Lemmy. I really like Lemmy so far :)

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Not sure, but Rust is probably not a good idea in your case because it has a quite steep learning curve. You could just make a post in asklemmy or /c/programming to ask for suggestions.

[–] letstry@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I would love to see a Blog front end for Lemmy.