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[Question] Why isn't there an option to follow users on lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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seems rather odd to not have this functionality in the first place, or is it just deliberately made that way?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

I always wondered, why do people follow other users on reddit? What happens if you start to follow someone? Do their posts appear on your frontpage, or something like that? Genuine question

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You see their posts on your front page (on reddit) if they post to their profile as opposed to a community. It's like having your own subreddit as soon as you create an account. Tbh I've never really seen anyone do that but YMMV and I feel if it took off it would start cannibalizing the subreddit "market". Most followers I've had on my account didn't really care for the feature but just did it out of the blue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Basically the only people I've seen do it are Reddit Admins. Then you've got a couple of subreddit used a bit in this fashion to. Most popular might be r/CGPGrey

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

maybe you enjoy reading someone's writing on r/writingprompts, maybe you want to get updated from a developer that discuss features on lemmy, maybe theres a horror youtuber that discusses dark mysteries and also mainly on reddit. maybe you want to follow your grandma's reddit account to see what she's up to. or maybe you're just interested what this random anarchist/privacy advocate/conspiracy/hentai/meme/extrimist user is up to. maybe you want to be toxic and follow the people who has the same minority view and help them be toxic, then proceed to get banned afterwards. maybe you want to see what your friend is up to. maybe you want to follow someone's blog, but they don't have a comment section, so they use lemmy/reddit instead for people to discuss.

idk man, who knows, maybe I'm wrong, well I don't even use reddit because they banned me for discussing the fediverse there.