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I’m not sure exactly how spez’s place used to handle it, but perhaps on lemmy, we could have posts from that user act like posts from a community??
Is this even a good idea?
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No offense to any of you, but I don’t feel the need to follow any of you.
Nothing personal. It’s not you, it’s me.
I personally never used it and always disliked it. I use this site for news, memes, pictures, etc.
If I want to follow people I’d do so via Mastodon, Bluesky,
Twitter, etc.When I first learned about it, I looked and saw I had like 20 followers. A couple looked like bots, a couple were OF ladies, but the rest just looked like real, regular people. Seemed really strange to me - I make a lot of comments, but don’t post much other content.
But though I’m not super likely to use the feature personally, it seems like it wouldn’t be a tough add, and some people would use it.
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I didn’t know that was a “feature” of Reddit. Was it available on third party apps? I used RIF so a lot of extraneous features (that I didn’t want anyway) were not available for me.
Kbin is kind of like Reddit+Twitter (or Lemmy+Mastodon) combined. It might be better suited to you if you’re looking to follow individuals and/or Twitter-style posts. You can still seemlessly view and post to Lemmy communities from kbin.
Personally, I have no interest in Twitter-like posts or following users, and kbin has yet to have any mobile apps (dealbreaker for me), so I’m happy here. But you should check it out!
It was available on Infinity, I followed Schnoodle so I’d get fresh peoms when they dropped.
Old place = social media network whose name shall not be spoken
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Yes! Please.
I never used it and did not see a need for it.
I used it to follow official account like Washington Post, Bloomberg, etc. some of them posted to various different subs, and following made it easy to see them all on one page.
The only “people” who followed me on Reddit were obvious spam accounts.
Same, but I’d add that it happened during the past two years the most more than all the years previously added together.
I was just thinking of this today, I couldn’t find a way to do it even when viewing that user’s profile. I am on the liftoff app, I haven’t tried it from a browser. But, yes, I too would like that as an option.
Pretty sure you can do that from the user’s profile. At least, you can on Kbin, not sure about stock Lemmy.
At the moment it is not possible 🫤
I would like to follow people too. Is there a feature request on github? If not, then let’s create one 😋
Yes. This is a feature of /kbin. I think it’s more for the microblogging aspect, but I’m sure it will still put those people’s posts in your subscribed feed.
On the users profile you can see all their comments and posts, and you can filter for only posts or only comments.
Im on kbin and did it for this one guy who was just posting tons of interesting science articles. Seems like a good idea to me.
I personally don’t want it and there are other types of forums that are organized around users rather than topics. But I wouldn’t be upset if the option was there as long as it had an option to turn it on and off.
I was today years old when I learned that you could follow users on reddit… How did nobody ever talk about this?
Anyway, I always vote yes for new optional features.
There was a lot of discussion when it rolled out. I never liked it. It felt creepy and it enabled stalkers/trolls. For the longest time, the outrage was over the fact that you could not see your followers, let alone remove them…
People act like reddit was only recently making dumb/unethical/self-serving/business /unpopular decisions, but it has a long history of repeatedly doing so.
It didn’t seem to do much tbh, idk if posts or anything showed.
I think a lemmy follow feature (with an option to turn it off) could be useful for a bunch of use cases. Not just ‘content creators’ a vocal group of people are wary of.
I would absolutely love this! And potentially a feed for only posts from subbed friends.
only posts from subbed friends
Like instagram/twitter but for (long-form?) text posts/memes/links. That’s interesting. It’ll be the opposite of ‘chatting’ - I mean, that’s just lemmy, but it still seems new and novel.
Get outta here with your parasocial dynamics
