Is there a way to follow user-accounts like Mastodon has? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 days ago by Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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[-] Martineskirt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They just want to stick to the platform being a link aggregator and not social media. Don't remember the arguments because I haven't read the issues on that for a while now.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Actually, I think you're spreading some false-hoods here.

I've spoken to the core-devs about this here, and they acknowledged that being able to follow people/users would be a generally good idea, but felt that it was a lot of work and so not a priority at the moment.

I'm with you on the desire of a platform the fuses the two general mechanisms (groups and users), and I think a groups-first platform like lemmy can bring something valuable to how a user's feed would work ... but the reality is that this sort of thing is just not in the fediverse's DNA at the moment. These aren't for-profit companies that need to wheel out features constantly to keep their stock price up!

There's an exception to that though ... friendica, hubzilla and streams, the sort of alternative timeline or "ancient magic" for the fediverse that predates ActivityPub and mastodon by long margins. They have clunky UIs, but are quite feature full, and happily combine both groups and users.