This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?
You can follow a community in Mastodon, but it treats each comment as a toot, so an active post can flood your stream. It’s not a great integration. I’m watching Kbin with a lot of interest because it combines Reddit-like links with comments (which they call Threads) and Mastodon-like toots (which they call microblogging) into “Magazines,” so you can have both in one place. Right now Kbin doesn’t have as many servers as Lemmy and the main server (Kbin.social) is getting hammered, so it’s difficult to use.