Reddit has that, and the ability to follow a user and get notifications when they post. I'm not sure it's widely used there, but I think it would be a decent feature to add to Lemmy.

I'd love that idea. Keep it private by default, but if people want people to follow them sure! If they want people talking on their page, sure. Etc etc

Honestly better that the mastadon/Twitter model to me anyways. Like there are few personalities I follow, and their communities are great. I don't really want disconnected no context verbalizing though like Mastadon/shitter does.

I personally dislike the user/profile centric approach of micro-blogging platforms like mastodon. Platforms like lemmy being based on communities instead is the single reason they are my social media of choice.

It's activitypub, but can be configured to also use AT as well.

Yeah, Wafrn uses both protocols, and basically runs its own PDS and AppView.

No, Wafrn is completely separate from Tumblr. And as far as I know the horrible redesign to make "notes" more like Twitter has nothing to do with the Tumblr-on-Wordpress/ActivityPub migration, which last I knew was indeed shelved.

Oh, I misunderstood, I didn't realize this related to Tumblr specifically...

Still, it might make some of the dev work easier, if they do end up migrating the backend over to WordPress.

Good to know, but I think I'll need to develop the questions a bit to explain my expectations.On most of the other Fediverse apps I've used (Mastodon, Akkoma, Iceshrimp), Lemmy threads are not actually threaded on the home timeline, instead showing every single individual reply as a separate repost. Friendica does manage threads properly, showing the original post and its replies as a single group. Does WAFRN do the former or the latter?I could technically use a RSS-to-AP bridge, but in my particular case it would almost certainly be considered an abuse of the terms of service: I use RSS feeds to follow YouTube channels, over 1500 of them to be exact. Even if I spun my own local bridge server, that would mean 1500 local accounts to manually generate and follow from my main account just for the sake of notifications. Add 1500 more of those if the software doesn't support Bluesky natively and I need to follow their RSS feeds instead.