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please help me, i want to post my art and some coding stuff i think some people might find interesting, but i don't want to flood or make it look like i'm spamming posts on a lemmy group!! and you can't post things on your profile. what other websites are there?? that are also fediverse? please. if not fediverse, then what other websites come to mind? thank you

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

lemmy-like fediverse forum

I believe you are looking for the term "threadiverse". Unfortunatly, Idk the answer to your question.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You want to join an mbin or piefed instance, they allow both microblogging and posting to lemmy communities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

mbin!! thank you, is there an android client for it??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

oh nevermind, i'm looking at their website and yea they have an app for android and linux called "interstellar", ok!! i'll just choose a server then

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you'd like, check out mbin; it supports both forums and microblogging (so posting things to your profile)

It's not as popular as lemmy, but it has a faithful userbase. Check out https://kbin.earth/

Pixelfed is especially great for art as others said; i personally use https://pixey.org/.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Mbin doesn't actually support posting things to your profile yet. Microblog posts still need to be posted to a particular community. They do plan to stop with that eventually and allow you to post outside of communities (recently mentioned on their Matrix), but that's not a thing yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure you know, but technically, Microblogs are still considered "posting to your profile". It's just that Mbin also happens to categorize those microblogs into a specific magazine, either based on tags or manual placement. They still display in your profile just like normal. Additionally, if you view those Mbin microblogs from a Mastodon server, they will still appear as if the user "posted to their profile". All Mbin is doing is assigning the Microblog a general categorization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, it's different meanings of "posting to your profile". I get it you're using the technical/backend/AP meaning of the post being posted to the user's account and then the community just announces it iirc. At least that's how it works on Lemmy, never looked into how Mbin does this exactly, iirc there's differences to how Lemmy and Mbin communities look from Mastodon.

But in this thread's context, it means that you make a post, and it's only visible on your profile, nowhere else. Not in any magazine. New Reddit has this feature, where you can choose to make a post to /u/username instead of any specific subreddit, and then the post is only visible on your user page.

It's unclear what exact meaning the person I replied to meant, but it's definitely not the technical one, considering their wording. So with "Mbin doesn't actually support posting things to your profile yet" I meant it in the context established by OP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Ah, yes. I misinterpreted the context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What I personally miss in every single one of recommendations in this thread is: they're all timeline-based, without a good way to showcase and arrange content. When I want to showcase my projects (be it code or art), I'd want them to be structured in arbitrary ways on my profile that make most sense at the moment, and I'd want to be able to rearrange them at any moment. ArtStation gets this right, Github also to some extent - they have pinned projects on your profile that you can showcase and rearrange.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

essentially modern myspace but federated, same would like to see that, would be cool, some sort of home feed for scrolling through homepage site previews

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Like a foryou page for websites and everyone makes custom ones, all meant to be served to each other connected to activity hub, maybe it could be done with wordpress

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Pixelfed I would say indeed!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

Features wanted:

  • Post to profile (media & text)
  • Fediverse connected

Apps with those features:

Joinmastodon.org

  • Microblogging
  • Alternative to X/Twitter
  • Open source

Ghost.org

  • Blog / Newsletter
  • Alternative to substack.
  • Open Source
[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds like an elaborate way of saying you want to blog.

Or, as the kids call it these days, "to post on my Substack". The two things being identical except that the latter sounds cooler and allows them to indulge their corporate Stockholm syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Substack is Geocities for the Tumblr generation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

you probably google for yahoo on bing amirite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Ha, good analogy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mastodon or Pixelfed come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

i'm sorry but i am not an enjoyer of microblogging!! but thanks, pixelfed could work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I really want something like myspace for the fediverse, profiles that are customizable and can display videos, photos, 3d models, etc. would be peak. The fediverse needs more awareness and funding tho. So many non federsted platforms made to be turned to shit and sold to the highest bidder keep popping up. Like I keep getting ads for lore, no ones heard of the fediverse or lemmy, the platform the commenters are looking for already exists, they dont need to goto another mess that exists to sell their data and forcefeed them ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Why not just have a website?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

And even this it was pretty random, I just want a way to browse only personal sites and share mine, see different categories like art, sports, etc. What I thought the internet would be, not just corporations tryna sell me something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Discoverability, everyones following a common theme basically what myspace used to be, a personal site that reflects you that is easily searchable among other sites doing the same things for other ppl, a website can be anything, you know what a myspace page is, old internet was like this forsure, id stumble upon a lot of personal sites that were unique, not really anymore. Like the whole geocities, everyone has a wix/webs site era.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Some benefits of federation for a system like this is possibility of integrated-into-one-system project comments, friends/subscriptions and user/project search/discovery (also by tags).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could create a community for yourself & post your stuff there. I don't think there are any rules against this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what I've been doing for a year or so...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it not working well? What is it lacking?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What is it lacking?

Plush carpet and air conditioning. No, it's working fine — fun for me, and a handful of others don't seem to mind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Mastodon? Substack? Bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://pixelfed.social/ or friendica or loops or just your own community on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely sounds more like a pixelfed use case.

But, any instance can work, just communicate with the admins and make sure it's cool, then create a community and set it to mod only posting. My cousin used to do that, and it worked fine.

There's a couple of communities set up like that as well.

Generally, you won't look like you're spamming posts, unless you're spamming posts. Like, set yourself a time limit between posts, and spread them out.

or do single posts via topic on your personal C/, and include related links/media as comments the way forums did stickied posts for things. Helps keep from reposting stuff too, since you can scroll a thread easier than a C/, on most apps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thank you, i will try pixelfed, i am excited to be in the fediverse way more

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Go ahead and throw your pixelfed username out here once you've made it. I assume you do furry art at least a bit based off your profile which isn't a super uncommon niche here, probably a few lurkers who'd love to follow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe pixelfed? Never used it but I think it’s more or less designed for this purpose, and it’s on the fediverse.