seems like Lemmy might benefit from allowing those types to be followed
Agreed. I brought it up in the dev AMA, and it’s an issue on GitHub. Devs say it would be a lot of work and isn’t a priority.
Currently, masto kinda sucks with groups and Lemmy with users. Overall it seems an unfortunately limited state of affairs in need of a clean up.
And, as I’m sure I am a broken record on, undermines the idea that the fediverse actually exists, yet.
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All of that being said, I do wonder if there are grounds to question Wordpress going entirely with a Person actor? A blog or Wordpress page isn’t necessarily written by a single author and can be closer to an RSS feed of multiples people’s work right? A Group actor might have actually made more sense then …?
If true, I’d guess they went with a Person actor for mastodon compatibility, which if true, would be a little saddening.