As soon as I can microblog straight to my own profile I'm sold. On mbin I had to make an admin only magazine for my microblogs to all be in one place.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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Could you describe your problem in more detail?
Microblogs are always associated to your profile. If you want to post something which is not meant for a specific magazine, the random magazine is what you need to use. It is a pseudo-magazine (and so not federated as a community) which aggregates all microblog posts which are not attached to a real magazine.
Yeah but like. Why not just straight to a profile? That's what masto does.
What exactly do you mean "to a profile"? Can you give an example of the difference (I never used Mastodon)?
Since the Lemmy devs are awful, an alternative isn’t a bad idea (although the Lemmy design itself makes it less bad for Lemmy than it would be for a centralized service).
From a technical perspective, it’s definitely sad to use this kind of service provided by Python instead of Rust (even if I like and use both languages).
Ya, I think if it were the other way around, the nice devs using Rust and the not so nice devs using Python, the decision would be much easier.
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My understanding is that PieFed gives you access to everything on Lemmy without directly supporting tankies.
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