• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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    Lemmy currently doesn’t allow you to follow individuals. As kbin does, it is probably a feature we will see in the future.

    For now you’d need a Mastodon, kbin or Calckey account (I recommend the last one).

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      You can actually browse individual profiles from places like Mastodon on Lemmy. They get interpreted as a community where each post is one “toot” from that user.

      Though comments and upvotes don’t proliferate back to the original platform, they live on your instance.

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        1 year ago

        Search for a community just like you would elsewhere.

        This place would be @fediverse@kbin.social, so you’d search that to find this place on the fediverse. Lemmy communities use the same format.

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          As far as I can tell, this would subscribe you to a user with the username “fediverse”. I’ve already seen a user and a community both named “cat” on the same instance, so that could be a problem if calckey doesn’t differentiate between @fediverse@kbin.social and fediverse@kbin.social.

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        You follow users the same way you’ve follow someone on Mastodon.

        You go to search and add a username in. Mine, for example, would be @emperor@feddit.uk.

        This then follows you on here and introduces all your posts and comments into your feed. What I do is create a list of all my Fediverse accounts so if anything I say somewhere needs a boost, I can fish it out: