Maybe I just like the Lemmy/reddit style of social media better. It makes more sense to my brain.

My favorite part about the fediverse is that you get to explore social media without feeling pressured, manipulated or like you have to do a lengthy sign up process. It encourages you to try different mediums of social media and find one that vibes with you.

I assume you are talking about mastodon here not lemmy but yes there are two main ways to discover posts from others that you don’t follow.

1. Your “home” feed is a feed of all users on your instance independent of whether you follow them or not.

2. Your “federated” timeline is a feed of all users who users on your instance follow independent of whether you follow them or not