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I don't like the twitter format.
I'm interested in following subjects, not individual people.
You can do that on Nostr clients that support it if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to ask my producer about it.
Refer to my other comment.
You may already know this, but I'll say it anyway: It's possible to follow hashtags on Mastodon, and so basically following topics.
It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn't do that?
Why wouldn't I?
Hashtags are not even close to a reliable way to follow a subject. The fact that people can post without them, means a lot of people don't. Not because they don't have something interesting to say, but because they are posting it for their followers. The entire culture around how discussion should be conducted is different among users used to the twitter format.
To post on lemmy, your post must be associated with a relevant community. Hence, posts go out to subscribers interested in the subject, rather than to the followers of the user. As such, posts live or die on the merit of their content. Not who posted it.