Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Mbin let's you do that. Well, it lets you create microblog posts which aren't scoped to a specific community. Not ones only visible on your profile.
The big issue there is that at that point, whether it's a Piefed/Lemmy implementation or Mbin's, you're having to deal with Mastodon's main federation problem. Which is that your post only goes out to your personal followers, otherwise it stays on your local instance. Which means you need an existing personal following if you want it to federate anywhere. The threadiverse usually has the luxury of having relays in the form of communities, but with self posts, you don't have access to that luxury.
I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case. Lemmy-federate uses actors on various instances to subscribe to your community to ensure the posts get federated there.
iknowsomeofthesewords.goodburger
I guess I have some homework to ~~endlessly procrastinate~~ do.