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 _
[email protected] you’re right, the experience is definitely sub-par, and it’s because both Mastodon and the Threadiverse use the
Announceactivity for different purposes.Mastodon uses it to boost posts to the feed (overriding existing logic re: replies being suppressed), and the Threadiverse uses it to keep different instances up to date.
It could be made better in that when a group actor announces a reply, Mastodon doesn’t promote it to the feed. Not sure if that’s easy to do.