IIRC, people created subreddits and used them as personal blogs. So I don’t see why you can’t create a blog/community here. I don’t understand why people are suggesting Mastodon to do that. I thought there was a word limit per post.
there's people saying that you should try kbin. i dunno, i mean, check it out and see if that's what you want. personally i'm not sure and think you might actually like doing it in a community in one of these instances instead.
the layout at kbin is more compact horozontally. the layout here has what would be single entries flanked by their own little comment section, arranged relatively neatly and easy to navigate. with a kbin UI i'd feel a bit annoyed about having to scroll 3/4th of a screen just to get to the next entry. i wouldn't like it, but then again i'm old and am due to start yelling at kids who are at the other end of the street in their own yards to get off my lawn soon, so you can laugh and dismiss my thoughts however you want.
i'm just putting in a vote for doing your blog here. considering you'll control what is allowed in the community it shouldn't be too difficult
More content is probly good content right now. Ive been going around treating comments like my own personal journal Makin a fool out of myself lol. Id probly sub to this. F it.
How bout like a "life story in under xx amount of words" community? I'd dig that too.
I doubt anyone would care if you did that, but it does sound like you’d get more use out of joining https://kbin.social/. They are part of the federated universe and have a dedicated microblog section.
Wordpress has an ActivityPub plugin if people want a full-featured blog on the fediverse. AFAIK is only works if you're self-hosting Wordpress, though.
I would post on something like substack and then post those as links, personally. Someone mentioned Mastodon but that's a micro blogging site so posting a full blog there directly is hard.
Keep in mind if you start a community you will have to moderate it or find helper mods.
Something people seem to forget a lot when talking about these sorts of things is that there's multiple publishing and macroblogging fediverse servers...
How would you do that? Each and every Toot is isolated and a far distance away from the "blog post from yesterday" - there is no blog roll or similar. (Yes, tags may help to find all of your blog posts, but...)
Here in #kbin you would create your own unique magazine - with your own rules. And you can enforce the rules because you are (the only) moderator. In a magazine you get an index page with a list of your blog posts for example.
Perhaps I should try it... if only I had topics to put into a blog... :-)
Up until now most of my research had said that kbin was basically Lemmy, but different. After some more research and looking through other comments you are definitely correct.
Interesting idea. I feel like in principle it shouldn't matter, but maybe people who like to review "local" instance traffic wouldn't want to see blogs. I don't know.
I do know a nice in-between solution would be hosting your own Lemmy instance if you have a penchant for technology.
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