Currently, it is possible to follow both Lemmy users and communities from Mastodon.
When you follow a user, all their posts and comments show up as posts on Mastodon.
When you follow a community. The community boosts all posts and comments made in the community.
I think it would work better, if for users, only posts showed up as posts and comments showed up as replies (meaning unlisted).
For communities, I think it would be better if only posts were boosted and not all the comments.
It is possible to find the comments by clicking on the post on Mastodon, so the comments would still be visible.
As it is now, following something from Lemmy from Mastodon is a noisy experience. I think it would be a lot better if only posts were boosted and shown as posts :)
I hope this is the right community to share this. If not, where can I share this ?
Have a nice day :)
Especially the way communities work on mastodon annoys me. I would love to follow some communities on mastodon, but I’ve had to unfollow all of them, because the comments take up my entire feed.
And the comments show up without the context of the original post, so I have to click on the comment, to enter the post thread it is a part of, and then scroll all the way to the top to see the post it is related to.
Maybe something about activity pub makes it hard to change, but it would be nice if it could be fixed :)