Have you ever tried Flohmarkt? Flohmarkt is a decentralized app for buying, selling, and bartering in the Fediverse that allows you to post items for sale or to give away. Because it’s federated, users of other platforms (e.g., Mastodon) can interact, view listings, and contact sellers directly via private messages.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market/

oh, a clarification: I’m still @macfranc@poliversity.it

I’m a fan of Lemmy, though I recognize that some limitations could be considered flaws (https://piefed.social/comment/11707767).

However, your perspective must take into account some design (and history) issues with the software you mentioned:

Lemmy barely works with PeerTube [discuss.tchncs.de]

It’s important to understand a few concepts here:

• Lemmy is based on Activitypub groups
• A group works by “resharing” an initial post and all replies to that post
• With some programs (Mastodon’s “socialverse,” Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica, or Pixelfed), you can “post inside a group” only by mentioning the “group user”; with others (Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/NodeBB’s forumverse, but also Peertube, Mobilizon, or Flipboard), you simply assign a discussion to a group (you can do this easily from the interface). This second mode doesn’t yet have a syntax shared by all the software in the Fediverse.
• Finally, a very important feature of Lemmy is that a post can only be published to one channel at a time. This might seem like a limitation (we’ll discuss it later, when talking about Flipboard), but it’s actually designed by the developers to prevent synchronous crossposting, which can dramatically increase spam.

Lemmy handles the display of Peertube content very well and correctly assigns it to the correct Peertube channel. What doesn’t work well is the update system, which is why Lemmy can’t act as a Peertube feed reader. This isn’t Lemmy’s fault, nor is it Peertube’s, as each handles Activitypub groups differently.

Lemmy doesn’t work with Pixelfed [discuss.tchncs.de]

That’s not true. Lemmy handles Pixelfed very well. Pixelfed users can open threads on Lemmy or reply to Lemmy discussions. However, Pixelfed only shows users retweets made by Pixelfed, not those from other software. Therefore, Pixelfed users cannot access the groups. Regarding your user, I’d like to point out that feddit.it can see it: https://feddit.it/u/NotAHopeInHades@pixelfed.social

Lemmy doesn’t work with Loops [discuss.tchncs.de]

Loops is still a very immature software, with very limited interoperability. I wouldn’t consider it a valid test for certifying Lemmy’s functionality. Regarding your user, I’d like to point out that feddit.it can see it: https://feddit.it/u/spaceotter@loops.video

Lemmy doesn’t work with Micro.blog [discuss.tchncs.de]

I’m not familiar with Microblog, but (regarding your user) I’d like to point out that feddit.it can see it: https://feddit.it/u/akshay@social.learnlearn.in

Lemmy doesn’t seem to work with Flipboard

Flipboard uses groups to manage the “magazines” of the “main accounts.” Magazines are the thematic sections of the main account. Basically, the main account (for example, @NationalGeographic@flipboard.com) publishes a news item, and depending on the topic, it can be published in the “Science” Activitypub group (@science-NationalGeographic@flipboard.com) or the “Environment” Activitypub group (@environment-NationalGeographic@flipboard.com), OR both. This design, intended to maximize visibility on the Mastodon audience, is incompatible with Lemmy’s logic. Lemmy, in fact, as I mentioned before, doesn’t allow synchronous crossposting of the same content across multiple groups.

The same goes for Misskey.

Lemmy handles Misskey very well. And Misskey handles Lemmy very well. I don’t understand the problem.

A blog requires a platform designed for blogging. Staying within the realm of federated software, the three natural alternatives are:

1. WordPress, which, thanks to the plugin that makes it compatible with Activitypub, has achieved a level of perfect integration with the Fediverse.
2. Ghost, which, federated a few months ago, is not only a blogging platform but is also specifically designed for creating mailing lists based on the Substack model.
3. Writefreely, which, despite being natively federated, is extremely focused on distraction-free writing and therefore has some seriously limiting features.

Friendica

As for Friendica, I’m a huge fan of that software and manage the second-most active instance in the entire Fediverse. I can assure you that I know it well and appreciate all its most important features. But don’t be fooled by the fact that some call it macro-blogging software. In fact, if you visit a Friendica account’s profile, it’s not possible to filter the Timeline of their posts from the Timeline of the posts they’ve reshared. So, you could virtually create a page like this:

https://poliverso.org/profile/saio

But you could only do that if you don’t share too much other content, otherwise the result would be like this:

https://poliverso.org/profile/notizie

which would be much more confusing 😅

However, Friendica is a very powerful software that allows you to republish your blog feed, as well as automatically reshare your federated blogs. Here I’ve listed some very interesting Friendica features for blogging:

https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-1366-ebfd-2002-91a370393480

So, to recap, if you want to use Friendica to create your blog, you can: you can create a new account. Remember to define it as a “page account,” if possible, but also remember that when you reshare content you like, it will appear on your profile page. However, if you don’t need the full suite of tools that characterize a social media platform, you’re better off using WordPress.

Sharkey

We’re talking about software with a very nice interface, but it’s still a social networking software. Being essentially a fork of Misskey, it also has a section for creating static pages that can be easily viewed from outside the Fediverse, but these pages can’t be federated with Activitypub 😭. Ultimately, it seems even less suitable for creating a blog. If you absolutely must use a Fediverse social media platform, then you’d be better off going with Friendica!

Hubzilla

PS: There’s also a software called Hubzilla, which is compatible with Activitypub, although it has developed its own communication protocol. I’m only mentioning it because it’s a feature-rich and well-designed product, but its interface is quite complex and unfriendly, so although I’ve chosen to mention it, I can’t recommend it as an alternative.