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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.
@nutomic Is there willingness to consider adding support for following users (and perhaps hashtags too)? It would be a good interop feature. IMO one of the biggest selling points of the Fediverse is that I can follow users from PixelFed, Calckey, Lemmy, etc and have their content show up seamlessly in my feed; I can even interact with it. Not having this feature just seems like it cuts off Lemmy users from the majority of the Fediverse, unless they want to manage multiple accounts on multiple platforms.
Check out kbin.pub, it's like lemmy but supports microblogs (mastodon-like). It's not yet fully federated with Lemmy but will try to. I'm not a user though, just found about it today.
@Cougar I'm already familiar with kbin and I know they have that feature, but I think the platform is still in beta, so IDK if it's ready for serious usage or not.
Good point!