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What does following a user do? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I follow a person, not subscribing to a magazine, what does that do for me? Do I see their posts/comments somewhere; if so where?
Also, do boosts factor into that or are they purely to bump stuff up in the algorithm?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There really should be a 'following' tab on the microblog section that shows the boosts and posts of the people you follow.

Maybe also customisable feeds that can combine magazines/communities, people & tags in whatever combination you want, like a combo of multireddits and twitter's lists feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely, and I see this as an eventuality given Ernest consciously chose to be this compatible with mastodon. I can't find it in me to demand it right now, but I would love it to be in the near future.

Right now, a lot of my interests are niche enough that the majority of people talking about them are doing so in the microblogs, but if İ actually follow any of them, it gets shunted to the sub feed and promptly drowned out by forum articles. Nobody tweets as often as every fedizen posts.

My only workarounds are deliberately checking each profile or searching the tags. Both work, but they're less convenient.