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PieFed as a blog ? (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 days ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Hi,

Lemmy can also function as a blogging platform. Doing this is as simple as creating a community and enabling the option “Only moderators can post to this community”. Now only you and other people that you invite can create posts, while everyone else can comment. Like any Lemmy community, it is also possible to follow from other Fediverse platforms and over RSS. For advanced usage, it is even possible to use the API and create a different frontend which looks more blog-like.

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Does this apply to PieFed as well ?

Thanks

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

Hmm, how does that one work ?

Instances report the latest activity ID through a public API endpoint. This compares the latest across instances. I can't remember the details, but one thing to remember is that not every instance gets every activity so it's not 100% accurate.

The way federation works is that you subscribe to a community, then that community starts sending your instance new content from the community posted after you subscribe.

If you have no subscribers, then you have no federation.

Check out https://lemmy-federate.com/ for getting federation started. This lets you enter a community and instances that have signed up will have a special account subscribe which causes your community to start sending content to their instance.

You can also post in special lemmy communities for letting people know about your new community.

Hopefully this is all the issue is! Have you tried using your account on your instance for commenting on other instances, e.g. replying to me here?