i don’t want to bring the big forum website that lead to the creation of lemmy (red**t), but that site lets you create posts for your own profile, like, it treats your own user wall as if it was a “subreddit” of its own and, if you don’t have any followers or don’t have the followers button enabled not a lot of people will see your post, but at least you can just sort of use it for posting interesting or casual stuff. lemmy should totally implement that please!!! can you do that on lemmy?? i tried but there’s not a way you can do it, i’ve been trying so if you know a way of creating posts on your profile, please let me know thank you

edit: there were a few grammar mistakes,i’m sorry!!!

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    5 days ago

    I am vehemently against it.

    Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

    Not everyone needs a personal board. When reddit did it it made me think of how discord does the same thing and all it does is muck up ux.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

      This is exactly what I’ve done, but I must say that in the particular community’s case, it hasn’t been easy. We’re going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I’ve personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.

      So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we’re not even that much of a niche.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yes, there is definitely a limit to the “they will come” part.

        It even applies to Lemmy as a whole, 44k monthly active users is nice, but you would expect more people for an ad-free alternative to Reddit with solid mobile apps

        • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          The Lemmysphere sure seems to get slammed a lot at places like r/RedditAlternatives. I wonder if possibly some of that is sockpuppet-stuff, as unlikely as that sounds. Still, more than ever we live in the age of misinformation and manipulation by opposition groups & monied interests, so the idea & practice is certainly on the table.

          Unfortunately, there’s also the reputation of at least one of the primary Lemmy coders. Seems like the sooner Kbin, Mastodon, etc can get better integrated, the less notable that should be. *knock on wood*