How do admins feel about users requesting (or creating) communities on here for blogging purposes? For example /c/online persona or /c/online persona sibling or something similar.
I saw somebody talking about how they started doing that on another server and simply linking to it on reddit to get traction in the fediverse. It seems like a great idea to me. Blogs are shared quite often and them being on Lemmy allows for new entries to simply show up in the local feed. They can be easily crossposted and commented on in Lemmy and across the fediverse if I’m not mistaken.
The only problem I could see is are naming conflicts. For example if somebody reads this and immediately creates /c/onlinepersona to block me from creating that to force a report to the admins. Or the reverse, a user creating the name “programming-guides” to then claim a community with the same name.
Thoughts?
(Not an admin)
Do you mean blogging literally within lemmy, or linking to an external website? (Edit- i see you mean within lemmy to cross post to reddit. Leaving rest of my post for some thoughts anyway)
My advice would be to set up a static website and use that for your blog. like hugo but there’s a few good options out there to generate static websites. This way if an instance ever does disappear then you still own your content. This also means you aren’t limited to a specific community and could share a post where it most directly relates rather than just an individual community where you dump everything.
If you’re wanting comments directly on your posts then some people have integrated comments into their blogs by using a federated platform (one example using mastodon). So for instance they make a post on lemmy or mastodon/etc and then in their blog they link the blogpost to it. Now there can be discussion on your blog/lemmy and you aren’t at risk of losing so your posts. There’s also other ways to do comments like utteranc.es or remark42 too.
tldr IMO if you’re wanting to build your own blog/platform its better to have ownership of it and not keeping it only on someone else’s server.