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Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon (thebrainbin.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Accidentally found earlier today you can follow communities/magazines as "group"-tagged users in Mastodon, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@fediverse@lemmy.world

The problem is that posts in the community appear as boosts on Mastodon, and even replies are treated as posts. So if you follow a community with high engagement there, your feed easily gets flooded by replies people make to a given post.

Hope that helps ^_^

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, don't do that.

You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.