Related to the first thing: your saying that makes me realize I enjoy person-centric social media more than content-centric social media, and it does make me wonder how a platform can promote the best of both worlds. (idle general speculation, not lemmy-dev-content)
Most of my Mastodon content is “personal” in the sense that it’s idle chatter / bad jokes that I want to share with internet friends–but then I have a few posts that are more boostable like “here’s a blog post about how to do X”. Ideally, I’d want to be able to add that to a community/topic after I’d made the original post, since it’s typically only then I realize something fits (one thing that Instagram gets credit for is counting tags from comments, which allows this after-the-fact organization).
At some point we want to add user following to lemmy, so we can plug into the rest of the fediverse. So you’d see both user and community posts on your main feed.
The only one I know that gets this right, is unfortunately facebook. They have both the typical user / friend following, but also facebook groups, which can be very large and get a lot of posts.
I don’t really follow a whole lot of social media, so I didn’t really see it that way. But now I can kinda see why FB is still so popular. Looking forward to what lemmy becomes!
Related to the first thing: your saying that makes me realize I enjoy person-centric social media more than content-centric social media, and it does make me wonder how a platform can promote the best of both worlds. (idle general speculation, not lemmy-dev-content)
Most of my Mastodon content is “personal” in the sense that it’s idle chatter / bad jokes that I want to share with internet friends–but then I have a few posts that are more boostable like “here’s a blog post about how to do X”. Ideally, I’d want to be able to add that to a community/topic after I’d made the original post, since it’s typically only then I realize something fits (one thing that Instagram gets credit for is counting tags from comments, which allows this after-the-fact organization).
At some point we want to add user following to lemmy, so we can plug into the rest of the fediverse. So you’d see both user and community posts on your main feed.
The only one I know that gets this right, is unfortunately facebook. They have both the typical user / friend following, but also facebook groups, which can be very large and get a lot of posts.
I don’t really follow a whole lot of social media, so I didn’t really see it that way. But now I can kinda see why FB is still so popular. Looking forward to what lemmy becomes!
There is a risk of stalking with that. If you add it, make it possible to see who follows you or disable the option to be followed.