@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@Elilol this is wild to me because that’s literally one of the main things that federation enables 😭 haven’t explored much beyond the threadiverse i assume?
@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds i’m actually not sure if Lemmy lets you follow users, weirdly enough (i know PieFed doesn’t), but it’s definitely possible to follow users from other types of fediverse software. i follow @Elilol from this Mastodon account, for example :3
PieFed actually gives you tons of options for following. I can follow users to get notifications when they post. I can subscribe to posts for when there are new replies. I can even subscribe to individual comments for when there are replies to those.
The only issue with PieFed, for now, is that you can’t currently follow and then see all of the posts from a Mastodon user. Only the replies/posts to a Community that can be seen on this side of the fediverse will show up in that case.
@QuadratureSurfer oh yeah true, there is that. you just can’t follow in the sense of having their posts show up in your main feed interspersed with posts from communities you’re subscribed to. i’d like to see certain people’s posts but i don’t necessarily want a notification every time they post.
Didn’t know you can follow people in the fediverse. I’ll try
@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds @Elilol this is wild to me because that’s literally one of the main things that federation enables 😭 haven’t explored much beyond the threadiverse i assume?
I mostly use it through Jerboa app, haven’t seen the follow option in the UI,
@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds i’m actually not sure if Lemmy lets you follow users, weirdly enough (i know PieFed doesn’t), but it’s definitely possible to follow users from other types of fediverse software. i follow @Elilol from this Mastodon account, for example :3
PieFed actually gives you tons of options for following. I can follow users to get notifications when they post. I can subscribe to posts for when there are new replies. I can even subscribe to individual comments for when there are replies to those.
The only issue with PieFed, for now, is that you can’t currently follow and then see all of the posts from a Mastodon user. Only the replies/posts to a Community that can be seen on this side of the fediverse will show up in that case.
@QuadratureSurfer oh yeah true, there is that. you just can’t follow in the sense of having their posts show up in your main feed interspersed with posts from communities you’re subscribed to. i’d like to see certain people’s posts but i don’t necessarily want a notification every time they post.
unless i just missed the option somewhere?
I don’t think it allows it, I’ll check later on my desktop.
But I need this conversation to stop. I feel like an old boomer asking kids to help me open my email.