Can lemmy be used as a blog (with comment section)? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by utopify_org@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] saba 4 points 1 year ago

I just read these 2 blog posts recently where they are using ActivityPub for comments:

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastodon/

https://fietkau.blog/2023/another_blog_resurrection_fediverse_new_comment_system

[-] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I had a similar idea to just link to a Mastodon/Lemmy thread in the blog article, saying "Here is the comment section!", because I want to keep a static website.

[-] saba 1 points 1 year ago

on my pelican generated website I have the rss feed of my mastodon account. I have a script that downloads & converts the rss and then pelican runs and regenerated and includes that on my site. Something similar might work with your idea for comments.

[-] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Can you show me the link, I am curious on how this look like?

[-] saba 1 points 1 year ago

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@saba/110470671030115751 here's a mastodon post I made about it and on my site you can see my feed on the bottom of the page: https://chven.us/profiles/sam.html

[-] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Looks really nice!

[-] saba 2 points 1 year ago

If you decide to try the rss-to-html.py, let me know if you want some help or to see what I changed. I don't know python well, but I did change a few things in it to get it to work right for me and to include the photos. Or if you come across anything else that does similar, I'd like to have a look at it.

[-] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot.

I will only link to a fediverse post in the end of a blog article like "Here is the official comment section", because I want to keep my blog as static as possible.

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