When I was at The Bad Place I had a sub just for me to post on… anyone could read and comment, but only I could make a post. I used it kind of like a notebook, nothing personal like a diary. A fix I made for Gratuitous Space Battles crashing, a can opener I really liked, a commentary on when Reddit hired a pedophile and tried to cover it up, etc. Basically anything I wanted to make publicly available but didn’t want to find/join a sub for.
The question is, is something like that possible in Lemmy without running my own instance? I know it’s possible on a technical level, I’m asking about social and/or convention.
It’s empty now but it was db2_ if you’re curious
Yes, you can make a community and then set it to be mod only posting. Then because you are the only mod it is your personal community.
Edit: Totally fine thing to do here. Anyone who doesn’t want to see it would not subscribe or block it if they were particularly peeved.
The lemmy docs even mention this as a way of using lemmy like a blog. Even suggesting creating a custom blog-like front end using the api.
Could you Lemmy some wisdom? Is there a way to only show post from communities I’m subscribed to?
I’m using an android app called lift off, but if there’s another option I’d probably switch.
In your account settings you can set the default home view to “subscribed”. Even without doing that “subscribed” should be one of the sort options on the home view of any Lemmy app.
Thanks I ended up switching to jerboa and found it right away.
The pulldown at the top, change it to Subscribed under the instance your account is on. You can change settings so it goes there automatically too.
Although you can make a personal Lemmy community as others have mentioned, I feel like Mastodon or Kbin might be better designed for that use-case?
What you’re describing is mastodon. Come hang with us!
Sure can! Mine is !nemo@midwest.social, but so haven’t populated it yet.
Kbin comes with a micro blog feature. A cool thing with the fediverse is that you could use Kbin to browse Lemmy (both are clone of that R social network)
> A fix I made for Gratuitous Space Battles crashing,
Are you the guy who made this game? I bought the first GSB and liked it.
lol no, I mostly just break shit. 😆 But it wasn’t working and I’m stubborn af so…
Feel free to come over to waste-of.space to have your own personal space!
Interesting idea. I did that on a Discord server that I set up…never occurred to me to do something similar on other platforms.
Yup! I enjoy following this fun example: !theandrocollection@lemm.ee
Aaand subscribed.
