Mastodon handles lemmy communities a bit strangely, doesn't it?
I know that communities don't translate well to Mastodon, I just find it a little odd how it seems to be a firehose of all comments in a community when viewed in Mastodon. I was expecting it to "repost" posts submitted to the community and have comments in the replies to those posts. Just something odd I was thinking about.
They don’t have a “subscribe” mechanism. Only following. And so everything coming from a group like a lemmy community looks like it’s coming from someone you follow, so you see all of their posts.
The alternative, which is also a general problem on mastodon, is that you wouldn’t be able to see any of the comments at all, because you’re not following the users making them.
As a person who uses Mbin on iOS, I'm really surprised no app support is an issue for people. It's really easy for me to use in the browser. I'm not saying this to put down people who want an app, I want to understand what an app would have that makes it better. I'm curious.