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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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Yes. Not being able to follow people isn't just a UI question, it's a core feature of the platform, and one of the main differences between microblogging and forums
blaze@lemmy.zip there's nothing specifically precluding Lemmy and Piefed from following users.
You can follow users on NodeBB, and in fact because I did worked on Mastodon microblog interop first, the software only gained the ability to follow a category relatively recently.
So dessalines@lemmy.ml has a point about it all being the fediverse, because some of what separates Lemmy/Piefed/mbin and Mastodon are artificial.
You can also follow people on Mbin too, and that's good, but still at the moment, none of the most active Threadiverse software (Lemmy and Piefed) allow their users to.
Those limits might be "artificial", but on the other hand, most of the userbase here has been around for more than 2 years now, and they still can't follow other users.