The core function of lemmy, is following communities, either built around a topic, region, or anything else. The core function of mastodon, is following people. The only way to make microblogging tolerable, IMO is to follow "topic-based" accounts. I might be interested in what a person thinks about a topic, but I'm not interested in what food they ate that day. There's also the issue of overwhelming feeds: not everyone can be a celebrity, and there's a limit to the number of people we can hold in our heads and follow, before our entire day is wrecked. I can't use most microblogging because its just too overwhelming, and I don't care about celebrities outside of a few writers or academics.