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?
Lemmy has a 10k character limit per post, something to keep in mind.
ohhhhh… 10k characters are not much and I have some articles with around 20k characters. But the good thing is, blog articles can be split very good. So I could do part 1 and part 2 of a topic.
Yep! Just pointing it out as I wrote some 12k characters yesterday and had to trim.
Can you show me the blog article, I am just curious how it will look like if it’s trimmed.
So it’s just a post on our instance, but it was written like a blog article. https://beehaw.org/post/107014
It’s really nice! I like it.
It can be read without distractions. Not much going on on the left or right and the comment section of Lemmy is in order and clean.
I would say it can be used as a blog pretty well or do you miss something, which other blog systems have?
A bit less ability to format than I’m used to (although I suppose if you’re hosting the instance you can format it however you want, to an extent), but I agree it can work fairly well
Which format abilities do you miss? I really like it that it supports Markdown so you can format text while writing, without even move your hand to your mouse.
Markdown gives you some control over size, but not by much. I like being able to play with font and sizing to get the look of sections just right. To be honest it’s not that much of a difference and I suspect some of my feelings are just because it’s the first time I’ve tried doing it this way. I think the biggest concern is the 10,000 character limit.