How can I follow people here?
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Hi, I'm new to the platform and I'm a little confused about how to follow other users. I go to their profile, click follow, but then it asks for my remote instance and I don't know what that is. Could someone please guide me?
You can't. It isn't a function built into the software, afaik.
Mmm ok, I went to your profile and it doesn't give me that option, but some others do. Anyway, thanks for the information.
Did reddit had this kind of function ?
It did!
Yes, it does; the main page shows you new posts from the users you follow, as well as those from the communities you belong to.
You need a client that adds the function.
I think Boost and maybe Voyager can do that, but don't quote me on that.
I'll look into it, thanks. 😘
On voyager you can't follow but it is close. You can tag users and once tagged you can go to settings and see the list of all the tagged users and jump to their posts from there.
Can you access the user's profile through mastodon? If so, you could just follow them there. Unfortunate that it isn't a function on lemmy or piefed though
I don't know what Mastodon is, but I'll look into it.
Mastodon is to twitter as lemmy is to reddit. Thanks to the way the fediverse works, though, most mastodon posts are visible from lemmy and vice versa. They're just text posts with replies; the formatting and the way voting works may be different, but ultimately it's all being broadcasted the same way.
So you would find a mastodon instance to sign up to, then visit the profile you want to follow. So the url should look something like instance.com/@[email protected]
Idk I tried to test it and it doesn't seem to work, ignore me lol
Oh, okay, I'll check how to do it—although I did create an account there, I made my first post and got a ban alert... so I don't think I'll last long there.