Can’t follow group posts only. When you follow a group/community in Lemmy you see all of the posts and replies made in that group (via automatic boosts), which can quickly clutter up your feed. I can’t find a simple way to only show new posts and not all the replies. So now I mainly browse Lemmy on its own instance page and only drop into Mastodon to make replies and upvotes.
yeah, I tried following one Lemmy community through my Mastodon account once, and it was a nightmare with all the replies made in the community boosted out of context to my feed. and that was about 2 years ago, today it would be even more unbearable.
I feel like it’s usable if you follow the community and strictly assign it to its own list. So the posts in the community only show up in the mastodon list.
So the posts in the community only show up in the mastodon list.
the problem is that you don’t get only posts, as mentioned in the part of the post that I quoted. if you follow til@lemmy.world from a Mastodon account, you get an endless list of all comments made in the community, without any context, sorted chronologically.
there’s no way of knowing which thread they’re from, without explicitly clicking on each and every one to view the context (spoiler alert: every comment from that screenshot is from a different post). it’s just not a viable to browse the content of the community, regardless of whether it’s assigned to a separate list or not.
yeah, I tried following one Lemmy community through my Mastodon account once, and it was a nightmare with all the replies made in the community boosted out of context to my feed. and that was about 2 years ago, today it would be even more unbearable.
I feel like it’s usable if you follow the community and strictly assign it to its own list. So the posts in the community only show up in the mastodon list.
the problem is that you don’t get only posts, as mentioned in the part of the post that I quoted. if you follow til@lemmy.world from a Mastodon account, you get an endless list of all comments made in the community, without any context, sorted chronologically.
Yes indeed
this is what I get when I follow !technology@lemmy.world from Mastodon:
and it just keeps going on and on.
there’s no way of knowing which thread they’re from, without explicitly clicking on each and every one to view the context (spoiler alert: every comment from that screenshot is from a different post). it’s just not a viable to browse the content of the community, regardless of whether it’s assigned to a separate list or not.