Yea. It'd be nice if only top level posts came through. And then, for comments to come through, you relied only on replies and following particular users.

The issue though, I think, is that mastodon has no backfill mechanism. So there's no way to get a lemmy post in your feed, and then opt in to seeing all of the comments. It's the same thing that leads to "reply-guy" replies on mastodon, where people reply with the same statement because they can't see each other's replies. At some point, I think we have to just start talking about how mastodon is in some ways a bit shit.

Still, I think my suggestion above would be better. Would it be possible for lemmy to adjust its federation for that?