Create your own community where you are the only one able to post. That's it.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Until now I honestly thought I'd have to host an Instance to create a Community, for some reason. Now I'm a bit embarrassed.
Thank you.
Edit for visibility:
This answer is the direction I chose to go in, mainly for simplicity's sake.
If the fediverse gods are watching, it might be worth considering automatically making communities associated with people's usernames. Maybe reserved automatically, but invisible unless you opt-in? That way nobody can create harassment communities targeting your username on your home instance. Just a thought.
Don't be embarrassed for asking questions and learning something new. No one is born knowing how to self post on Lemmy.
I reserve the right to feel guilty, embarrassed, sad, etc. for inappropriate reasons in much the same way I reserve the right to feel positive emotions for similarly nonsensical reasons, but I appreciate the logic of it and you for dispensing it.
You're welcome. If your are thinking creating your own community, don't get overwhelmed with things like "rules" and "moderation". Lemmy has default rules for every user and community. Just create your community, lock it to be you the only one poster, stick to the default rules and good luck.
You can't on Lemmy, but can on mbin. I saw someone else mention just post, which will work for it, but I also just have a second account on a microblogging fedi platform for that, and that's what I'd actually recommend for it. "You don't need multiple accounts on the fediverse" yada yards, but there are certain instances where it's helpful to have multiple, like this one xD
Mbin ftw
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.
I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case.
iknowsomeofthesewords.goodburger
I guess I have some homework to ~~endlessly procrastinate~~ do.
IDK where you'd do it in English, but there's !einfachposten@feddit.org, which is in the tradition of r/just_post.
!justpost@lemmy.world
There's also multiple "shower thoughts", "DIY", "unpopular opinions" and "casual conversation" communities that could spark OPs interests.
Sadly not relevant to my specific post, but I appreciate you spreading the word.
Seems like a good community ~~but sadly doesn't fit my use-case for reasons I haven't yet stated.~~
Thank you for the referral ~~, though~~.
After poking around it does actually seem relevant, though it's always against my nature to try to grab someone else's limelight.
Unrelated but is there a way to convert someone else's instance+community link to your own?
Obviously not faulting you for this, but when I click on your link I get taken to lemmy.zip, where I do not have an account so I cannot participate. I spent some time manually searching for that community on my own instance, which of course is a bit annoying for newbies and I would think there is a way around that I haven't found yet.
You can link Communities like this:
@disregardable@lemmy.zip did link it badly
Thank you.
In their defense, a feature that's not known by everyone isn't really the fault of the people who don't know about it.
Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.
Beauty of the fedi, you can post from one instance to another without needing a separate account. For example mine is a single person instance with no local comms, yet here I am.
Edit: I think I missed the intent of the question. What you would look for is just the same of the comm@instance.tld on your own local base and assuming that federation functional between the instances it'll show up to subscribe to. There's no translation needed, but if you're the first to subscribe from your home instance it might not show up right away.
If that's something you're going to be doing a lot, maybe look into starting a Mastodon account or some other service more specifically tailored to blogging?