Jonamerica

When I tried that all I get are the comments from all the posts. I'm using the Mastodon website, so maybe it's your app. Are you see all comments in your feed or just the posts?

My experience has been that the "Hot" view is most similar to Reddit if you're looking for new content. You can read about the different sorting here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

What I've noticed about the "Active" sort is that older posts that are still getting upvotes and have new comments can remain at/near the top of the list for several days. I think this is good if you want to see where ongoing discussions are happening. On Reddit, I often felt that an interesting post fell off my view very quickly. I know I wasn't the only one, which is probably why people would post a "remind me" post or "following" post on Reddit so they could come back to it later. Regardless, someone might entirely miss a post that blows up in a community but sees it in the "Active" view and check it out. I like "Hot" because I can see what's trending up, but I frequently switch between Hot and Active. I've noticed that many of the "hot" posts don't have any comments.

I agree with you regarding quieter communities. Reddit had something in its sauce that allowed posts from less active communities to show up in my feed through all the noise of busier communities. This didn't happen for all the subreddits that I joined, but rather, the ones I showed an interest in. The downside of that kind of algorithm is it reinforces the echo chamber effect as the algorithm is learning what I like and then showing me more of what I like to get me to stick around longer. This system isn't (currently) prone to that kind of manipulation.

It has excellent potential. It has only been around about a month and has quickly received a lot of interest and, from what I've read, there has been a surge in code contributions. I think it will be the preferred platform alt-Reddit platform once Kbin resolves its more significant issues and starts adding some QoL features.

Kbin and Lemmy are software that you can run on a server to host a public (or private) instance. Kbin is newer and there aren't a lot of servers hosting it, but I expect it to grow quickly.

Lemmy is very similar to Reddit where you can post in a community (subreddit) and have threaded comments. You can subscribe to those communities and see the posts in one place.

Kbin offers this same functionality, and because it works with the fediverse, you can use your Kbin account to join communities on Lemmy servers. In Kbin, these are called threads. Kbin also have a microblogging feature, like Matodon, so you can follow Mastodon users there in a Twitter-like format if you're interested in that. Lastly, Kbin combines Threads and microblogging into "Magazines" about a specific topic, allowing people to interact in whichever format they like most.

You can't, but there's no need. You can read posts to communities on other Lemmy servers from your account on lemmy.ml. You can subscribe to those communities and comment on posts there as well. There's no need to have an account on each server. It's like email. You don't need an email address on each server to send/receive email. There may be a reason to have another account - maybe you get really involved in a community on that server and that server feels more like home. But, no, there is no protocol for cross-authentication.

Searching for the URL allowed me to find it and then subscribe from my instance. Thanks for the assist!

Seems like a flaw that I couldn't search for photography@lemmy.ml, though.