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How to follow someone, but in a good way (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have the option to block users, but do I have a way of following or highlighting them in discussions?

I know that each user gets an RSS feed, but is there a way of using this within lemmy, similar to how I can click on "Subscribed" for communities?

The closest I have is this UBlockOrigin rule:

## e.g. highlight users: "tetris11" "kambusha" "Macniel"
## 
lemmy.ml##a[href*="tetris11"],a[href*="kambusha"],a[href*="Macniel"]:style(background-color: yellow !important; outline: 2px solid red !important;)

Which seems to work, but it's very cumbersome to write out rules like that

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not at this moment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

My current method is to message them and then I can go find them through that message lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pyfedi allows following users I believe. It’s a python version of lemmy

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

It's not following users in the same way you'd follow communities though - other users have a 'bell' icon in their profile, and if you click that you get notified when they make new posts.

If you want to follow users in the ActivityPub sense, and have their content appear in your feed the same way that new posts in a community do, you'd need to use a platform geared up for it (e.g. MBIN, Mastodon, etc).