How do you follow a thread/post/whatever on lemmy, and why doesn't the internet appear to know?

Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.

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internet searches on this and other subjects repeatedly link to the lemmy sub on reddit... which doesn't exist

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Locking for rule 5.

That doesn't give you a notification when there's a new comment. I assume that's what op means by follow.

I don't think it's possible, at least if it is I don't know how either.

It does on Piefed. Not sure about Lemmy.

On Lemmy, the save function (star icon) does give a number beside the comment count icon. Like 4 comments (2 new). Still a manual check, though.

Also Lemmy's comment discovery (the chat sort method) is harder to follow with context, not as good as Kbin's unread highlighting was.

That's for Piefed not Lemmy. They're different.

Probably seo reasons