You can follow both. The topic are curated by admins & staff, so we share what we like. Feed are your own selection private or public.
Imo, the best way to understand because it is not clear when you discover federation for the first time, is creating your own private multicommunity : feed.
You can tailor the timeline to your need by creating your own feed or following our selection & user selection.
I complete skavau reply. :)
Piefed support two thing that reduce fragmentation : multicommunities and merge crosspost (only those with a link.)
There is 2 kind of multicommunity :
What do it mean ?
multicommunity
If there is several community (eg : !europe@feddit.org, !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com …), you can regroup them into a multicommunity.
The upcoming version of Lemmy v1 will support multicommunity.
crosspost
If you share a link, as https://www.lemonde.fr/ in !europe@feddit.org and crosspost it to !france@jlai.lu piefed will meege comment from !europe@feddit.org & !france@jlai.lu
Thanks. When should I use topic vs feed? Can I follow both?
You can follow both. The topic are curated by admins & staff, so we share what we like. Feed are your own selection private or public.
Imo, the best way to understand because it is not clear when you discover federation for the first time, is creating your own private multicommunity : feed.
You can tailor the timeline to your need by creating your own feed or following our selection & user selection.