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!!!

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ultimately, if just the right tool is in front of you

That's the thing. The "better" tool isn't right in front of me. OP didn't know about it.

And if they did, they would have to do the whole "which instance to join" dance, again.

And after they joined the instance, they would have to find a mobile app to use. (oh, oh, there isn't one)

And after they said "fuck it, let's just use the web UI", they'd be like "okay, I can follow people from mastodon and I can follow Lemmy groups, but if there is an user that is on Lemmy, it still means that they can only post things to groups. (IOW, incomplete interoperability resulting in functionality silos)

Wouldn't it be a whole lot simpler/easier if Lemmy had the capability to let the user create posts without referencing any group? Even if it wasn't the main feature, it could be implemented at the server and documented just enough for those working on alternative clients. The "purists" that don't care about the functionality would still keep their tools intact, but the others would greatly benefit.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I agree like 80%. I think with the tools, it is how it is. They don't necessarily owe you anything. I did some renovations lately, and realized (again) that choosing the right tool and method might be essential. We wasted hours and hours in some cases doing some amateur work. And after asking someone how to do it properly, or getting a recommendation to rent the professional tool instead of bothering with the consumer-grade power tools, something that would have taken days, got done in one morning. Same applies to computers in my experience. I learned how to use some tools that just make things a lot easier. Sometimes they automate a boring task. Or make me 100x as fast. And it doesn't really help to complain I was not aware of it's existence. That's how it is. You can't know everything. You'll have to make ends meet with some amateur work then. Or somehow become aware of how to change things to your advantage.

And things like being locked in, or being invested in something can be problematic with software. Sure you don't want to begin all over after you invested effort and labor into one solution. Or learned something for a long time and now you have to switch to something else. I believe that's one of the main reasons why people stick with Microsoft Windows. Despite it not being particularly great. Ultimately that's your choice. Either you put in the effort, re-learn a few things and adapt your workflow. And that's somehow worth it to you and you'll start to benefit from it after a while... Or you don't do it.

But all of this is very abstract. And just from the user's perspective. My point mostly applies if you're the user and faced with a fixed situation which you can not change. Of course that does not apply to the software developers. They should listen to the requests of their users and implement features unless there is a specific reason not to do it. And that's where I completely agree with you. It would be great if the software was capable and had a lot of features. I mean there are some limitations in practice, you need someone to invest time to implement it. And feature creep kills projects, you can't add everything... But I think Lemmy could really benefit from some more useful features. And I don't see a reason why they should reject them without a specific technical reason.

Maybe the correct course of action is to file a feature request with the Lemmy project. I hope they'll implement it. And if they don't, I think it boils down to what I lined out. You'd either be okay without your feature and keep using Lemmy, or you really want it and discard some of the other requirements and have a look at other software.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they would have to do the whole “which instance to join” dance, again.

Oh, this again.

Seriously, you're now arguing for a monoculture and centralization.

At that point, just go back to Reddit.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One more of these ridiculous "so you are saying..." comments, and I will start responding to you with Cathy Newman memes.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

Well, stop expressing that people shouldn't have to make choices about what they use, and maybe I'd give a shit what you say or do.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

That’s the thing. The “better” tool isn’t right in front of me. OP didn’t know about it.

People mentioned Mbin in this very thread

And if they did, they would have to do the whole “which instance to join” dance, again.

https://fedia.io/

And after they joined the instance, they would have to find a mobile app to use. (oh, oh, there isn’t one)

https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar