It is really nice that we can follow communities on #Lemmy from other #Fediverse platforms like #Mastodon, but I'd ask the Lemmy devs so that the virtual users they use to auto-boost posts in communities only do it for original posts, and not for replies, so following a community from other platforms only gives you the new posts on your timeline, not every reply.
At this point it is not that bad, but once Lemmy takes off, I'd expect this to be a major annoyance for fedi users.
Depending on how they do it behind the scenes, they might be helpfully tagging the data with an indication that it's a reply and not a post, so that it really becomes up to the client UI to decide how best to handle it.
A lot of things on Fediverse are like that, with ActivityPub protocol giving the information, but leaving it up to the user interface developer to figure out how best to serve users with the incoming data.
