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But if the feature already exists in another platform, I'd gladly use that instead.
Plus, lemmy developers said this would be a very difficult change to make and requires a lot of rewriting. I presume it is because activityPub was only added to lemmy much later on.
We created Lemmy from the very start with federation in mind. But it was always meant to be a Reddit alternative, which means community focused. I don't see any reason to add user following when that's already supported by a dozen other Fediverse platforms, and would only dilute our main focus. I believe in the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well.
Hey nutomic! Thanks for adding the context. I hope my comments above didn't mis-represent what you said, and I'd like to add that I respect your position to not add a lot more work on the plate if it doesn't agree with your goals, especially when other platforms that do it exist (which is what I'm asking about in this post).
However I do respectfully disagree with the point on unix philosophy: unix philosophy also talks about interoperability, and you can see that with unix tools everywhere being very interoperable among each other. In my humble opinion, lemmy is not quite there yet with interop regarding other fediverse platforms, when that is a key benefit of the fediverse.
This isn't meant as an attack. This is surely easier said than done, and your work on lemmy has been amazing and I applaud it. But I also cannot confidently say lemmy is following unix philosophy in an exact sense here, not until interop is fully functional.
Cheers and thanks again for the great work!
Interop with microblogging is not the main purpose of Lemmy. The main purpose is to have a federated Reddit, with federation between Lemmy instances. That it can also connect with other platforms like Mastodon is more like a neat side effect.