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 (5 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.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (2 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.

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