The user in this screenshot is just an example. I'd love to be able to receive updates when my favourite users post. Also, this has been a great app to use, and I'm looking forward to future development!
Edit: Thank you for the feedback! Hopefully we'll see this implemented on lemmy and then supported through api.
There is absolutely no reason that a community based system should follow users. This is something reddit only did to try and get "influencers" and drive ad revenue. Not having any of that crap is what made reddit great in the first place.
That's a bad take. There are some users that regularly write outstanding content or even just a series of posts that you don't want to miss the next installment of. Examples on Reddit were /u/Gambatte in /r/TalesFromTechSupport and /u/SqwrlTail in /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk
Exactly. I like seeing the same people around every so often, and I liked knowing when I updated the same person a lot (means I should probably trust what they say more).
However, I don't want to follow any of those people specifically. So if we had anything close to that, it should be limited to the RES feature that tracks upvotes by user.
Kbin mixes them and I haven't noticed any problem with that, despite being a user who has no interest whatsoever in the Twitter-like side of things.
Kbin actually presents me with a "follow" option when I view your profile. I've never tried that so I don't know what it does. Here in the Fediverse I don't think it's going to be possible to prohibit others from adding features. You just have the option to not use those features yourself.
As far as I can tell, following someone via Kbin is for either getting their microblog posts (Mastodon-style) or for more generally getting their activity federated to your instance (if it’s like the general ActivityPub concept).
That's probably more of a Lemmy feature request than a Jerboa feature request.
Edit: TIL if I've left a Lemmy page open in my browser, I should refresh a page before replying to make sure I'm not restating posts that beat me to it that I haven't seen.
That's not a feature of even Lemmy itself, so how do you expect Jerboa to pull it off?
From a technical standpoint, I'm pretty confident that it could be done client-side via polling the list of followed users. Lemmy does expose their comments.
I'm on kbin and have subscribed in this way to Ernest, the admin of kbin.social, but still don't ever see any notifications about anything when he posts. I always just find them naturally while scrolling the front page because everyone else boosts the hell out of his posts.
So either I'm an idiot or the feature is currently nonfunctional. Pretty solid 50/50 odds.
I'm not sure Lemmy supports this (I'm assuming kbin does). Would be handy, then you could also follow mastodon users, but I suspect this feature would need the support on the Lemmy backend.
In the end it is an open source client =). You can check the Github Repository https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa for open feature requests/issues and may also submit a new one.