Can we get a "Follow Person" option?
The user in this screenshot is just an example. I'd love to be able to receive updates when my favourite users post. Also, this has been a great app to use, and I'm looking forward to future development!
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No. Thats not how Lemmy works. Reddit added this feature a while back to make it more like other social media sites.
We dont need to emulate that.
Mastodon is designed for following individual people.
Lemmy is designed for following communities. Mixing one with the other now will only slow development and confuse new users.
I think it is creepy to be followed. As long as it's opt in.
There is absolutely no reason that a community based system should follow users. This is something reddit only did to try and get "influencers" and drive ad revenue. Not having any of that crap is what made reddit great in the first place.
It's funny because I use RiF and Apollo and I never did see any kind of followers or anything
That's a bad take. There are some users that regularly write outstanding content or even just a series of posts that you don't want to miss the next installment of. Examples on Reddit were /u/Gambatte in /r/TalesFromTechSupport and /u/SqwrlTail in /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk
Just have them create their own magazine/community and post there.
Then you can subscribe to the Community/Magazine.
Easy Peasy... I think, I still don't really understand this enough to speak 100% confidently, but from what I think I understand it should be.
They're just basically subreddits right?
Exactly. I like seeing the same people around every so often, and I liked knowing when I updated the same person a lot (means I should probably trust what they say more).
However, I don't want to follow any of those people specifically. So if we had anything close to that, it should be limited to the RES feature that tracks upvotes by user.
Kbin mixes them and I haven't noticed any problem with that, despite being a user who has no interest whatsoever in the Twitter-like side of things.
Kbin actually presents me with a "follow" option when I view your profile. I've never tried that so I don't know what it does. Here in the Fediverse I don't think it's going to be possible to prohibit others from adding features. You just have the option to not use those features yourself.
As far as I can tell, following someone via Kbin is for either getting their microblog posts (Mastodon-style) or for more generally getting their activity federated to your instance (if it’s like the general ActivityPub concept).
I see what you're saying. I don't think it would be a bad feature for a minority of users who are content creators on the platform, though. I'm looking for a way to stay connected with other platorm related, content creators on the platform, to keep it going. I want to see this platform succeed, from both the social engineering perspective, and the technical side. I also want to follow my favorite followers as they migrate here, but I recognize I'm pivoting.