The user in this screenshot is just an example. I’d love to be able to receive updates when my favourite users post. Also, this has been a great app to use, and I’m looking forward to future development!
Edit: Thank you for the feedback! Hopefully we’ll see this implemented on lemmy and then supported through api.
Kbin mixes them and I haven’t noticed any problem with that, despite being a user who has no interest whatsoever in the Twitter-like side of things.
Kbin actually presents me with a “follow” option when I view your profile. I’ve never tried that so I don’t know what it does. Here in the Fediverse I don’t think it’s going to be possible to prohibit others from adding features. You just have the option to not use those features yourself.
As far as I can tell, following someone via Kbin is for either getting their microblog posts (Mastodon-style) or for more generally getting their activity federated to your instance (if it’s like the general ActivityPub concept).