And just to express a sort of wishlist for future lemmy development … where a developer might be interested in taking this specific idea on … there’s probably some low hanging fruit around making lemmy more a dedicated blogging platform.
Take the moderator-only community mechanism mentioned above and make this a more straight forward process. Probably work on the moderation tooling a bit to make it easier to control any dumpster fire comments situations. Maybe work on tagging (which is already something being worked on I think). Then there’s theming, where people might want their personal community to appear a certain customised way.
And then, and this would be a big one maybe, add the ability to control who is able to subscribe (where private communties already seem to be on the roadmap for lemmy). Once you can control that, then integrating some third party subscriptions service would allow an author to try to collect subscriptions for their content … and you have a federated substack substitute where the author could use their account/instance to also browser and comment on the wider fediverse too.