Accidentally found earlier today you can follow communities/magazines as “group”-tagged users in Mastodon, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
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 _
That’s something that’s been bothering me on the microblogging side of Mbin too, how replies to posts are presented. There, all replies appear on the feed, and they’re also on a parallel code block to the post, so even browser scripts or filters have trouble picking them.
Your comment gives me some ideas, so will be poking on the Mbin issues tracker later. Thanks! _