jollyroberts

There is a FEP that has a proposed way to address this: FEP-d36d: Sharing Content Across Federated Forums (https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/d36d/fep-d36d.md)

I don’t know that anyone has implemented it through.

Zoe from Firefly, Tiffany Aching from Discworld are two that come to mind

Same. I loved reddit before it went to h*ll. Now I run my own PieFed instance just for myself and even if the other devs give up on the project I know it will still be there. Cause it’s mine

Oooh, good point. That would mess with Lemmyverse data, which would be annoying for discovery

Ah, yeah fair point there.

I follow hashtags I like, then see who the people are who use those tags, then follow those people.

I find that I discover people that way I would not have found otherwise.

It’s worked well for me so far. I wasn’t a twitter person before though, so I don’t know if I have the experience you did for comparison.