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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2023
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Lemmy can only follow communities, not users. Otherwise it would require a whole new UI and other major changes. Doesnt make much sense when you can create a second account on Mastodon or one of many other platforms which already implement user following much better.
Fair enough. It'd be nice to centralize all my social media in one place - Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc. It's actually super-cool that this works the other way at all - I've followed a couple communities on Mastodon and it's neat seeing posts pop up in my feeds.
But I totally get why Lemmy works the way it does. I almost wonder if maybe it makes more sense to be able to follow Mastodon hashtags? I'm not familiar enough with the ActivityPub protocol to know how easy that is, though (and I get the feeling it's not easy...).
You cant follow hashtags, only follow the users who post them and then filter according to the hashtag on each post. That doesnt make sense for Lemmy (it only follows group actors, which are similar to user accounts).
Modelling tags as communities actually sounds like a good idea though. But you wouldn't want to namespace them by instance, hmm. I guess they could just have their own namespace as a pseudo-instance.