Can lemmy be used as a blog (with comment section)?
Can lemmy be used as a blog (with comment section)?
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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@utopify_org Wordpress has an ActivityPub plugin that may work in your case.
wow you're posting this from frendica? do you see my comment? i know mastodon can see lemmy post but not up-to-date. Is it the same in frendica?
@65gmexl3 Oh and about your other question: it looks like you posted 2 days ago but I received it 13 hours ago at my server, so a little delay. Mainly the nature of working with federated servers is that things aren't always instantaneous.
thanks foe the update. im curious if the federation issue is with friendica or lemmy
@65gmexl3 Looks like sending from my server was pretty quick, but I'm running a single user node on a probably overpowered server, haha. Could be something with Lemmy or just the amount of tasks your lemmy server is experiencing.
i went to your instance to view this lemmy post but while browsing site went down?
Internal Server Error
Apologies but the website is unavailable at the moment.
Request: acf0ba69361dd302df180527d98e9ebc
@65gmexl3 Hm, that's strange. Could have been when i unplugged my router to do some housework. Downside of home self-hosting!
I've also had issues on mobile internet sometimes, as I think a few carriers don't seem to allow connection to residential IPs. Have t had much issue with normal broadband, however.
@65gmexl3 Yep they all talk ActivityPub! Friendica is one of the few that also supports Diaspora protocol so I can talk to people there too.
I switched from Wordpress to a static website generator (Pelican), because it was bloaty and something broke like after every update.