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?

  • ajjlyman@lemmy.sdf.org
    13·
    1 year ago

    You could… but it’s singly not setup for that. There are blog softwares out there that support activitypub-- I have no experience with it, but microblog.pub was nativity designed as an activitypub blog. There’s also a WordPress plugin that’s basically official (maintained by the company that owns WordPress.com) and has known good integration to at least mastodon, so I would assume it works well with lemmy, peertube, etc, since AFAICT, mastodon is the most opinionated of them when it comes to activitypub conformance.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    You wouldn’t even need to host your own instance, really. You could create a community and check the option that only mods can post. But you can’t follow people on Lemmy.

    What about calckey?

  • m_randall@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    Holy Necro….since I’m here tho I think kbin is more set up with this. It has a microblog section although I haven’t really explored it.

  • Mwalimu@baraza.africa
    4·
    2 years ago

    If that would be possible, how would you moderate comments, seeing how random things can get? Federating with only approved finstances (federated instance)? What if you keep your blog, then push every post you make there to your solo-community on a finstance? You can engineer your comment section on the blog to pint here or fetch the comments content from fediverse to your blog…

    • maxmoon@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      If that would be possible, how would you moderate comments, seeing how random things can get?

      I don’t know what you mean? If I am the admin of an instance or the moderator of a group, I could delete comments or is this just not possible?

      Federating with only approved finstances (federated instance)?

      Why doing this? Wouldn’t it be enough to block the illegal instances and those who are explicitly against your topics?

      What if you keep your blog, then push every post you make there to your solo-community on a finstance? You can engineer your comment section on the blog to pint here or fetch the comments content from fediverse to your blog…

      I am trying to be as green as possible. Having a blog on one server and the comments on another sounds like an inefficient way of using resources. Why not just put the articles where the comments are?

      With Mastodon I had the same idea, that I will publish an article, post a link with short description on Mastodon and then use the Mastodon post as the comment section, then edit the blog article and put the link to Mastodon on the end of the article with a simple text link like “Comment section”.

      But even this idea felt a bit odd and more unprofessional.

      Lemmy looks like a really good solution to this atm.

      • ojmcelderry@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        To be honest, I think whichever approach you take is unlikely to have a significant effect on how much energy your website uses overall.

        For example, servers in datacentres are very powerful and are able to run more than one thing at once. So if you were hosting your own Lemmy/Mastodon instance, there’d be no reason why you couldn’t also host a standalone website on that same server. The difference in energy usage would be negligible.

        In contrast, you could argue that Lemmy is less efficient than a straightforward static website because the content of your blog posts will inevitably end up being federated to many other instances. That means multiple copies of your blog will be transferred between multiple servers and stored on multiple hard drives, etc. Whereas a static website lives in one place and doesn’t end up using so many resources.

        At the end of the day, whichever you choose will likely have very little impact. So I wouldn’t worry too much about your blog’s green credentials.

        I’m saying this as somebody who is pro protecting the environment, but also pro prioritising our efforts in the places they’ll have greatest impact. You’ll probably have a bigger impact by walking to the store instead of driving.

  • kromem@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yes. IIRC it’s even discussed in the official docs. Basically just limit post creation on the server and allow comments.

    The nice thing about open source is that in the future there might even be add-ons that better format it for blog display vs thread display.

    • FirstWizardZorander@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was just thinking that. You could either implement a way to render the linked content as an article, or allow more rich formatting in the text body itself.

      • jbcarroll@friendica.jb-net.us
        2·
        1 year ago

        @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.

          • jbcarroll@friendica.jb-net.us
            2·
            1 year ago

            @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.

            • lionkoy5555@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              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

              • jbcarroll@friendica.jb-net.us
                1·
                1 year ago

                @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.

  • human_no_4815162342@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    There was a guy on GitHub that added a Lemmy comment section to his blog hosted on his website. So it’s already an accepted although niche usecase.

    I feel like a single user instance of Pleroma would be more appropriate (and easier to host) but even though the character limit can be increased the remote limit of other instances might reduce your visibility, I am not sure.

  • KaKi87@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hi,

    I’m feeling the same and wondering the same, did you ended up trying this, and if yes, do you have some advice on how to manage this particular use case ?

    Thanks