@taur10 There's also #Lotide which is more minimalistic - kinda like #hackernews. You can subscribe to both Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines from it.
@mikey yes, you can be followed on Lemmy, but not from Lemmy 🙂 you can be followed from other projects that allow following individual accounts.
I did follow a few accounts that, err, seemed to deal with the previous political majority better back in the day 🙂