The thing I liked about Reddit, and the thing I like about Lemmy is the focus on the discussion over the users. Following individuals instead of topics feels really weird to me.

I understand the interest in the feature, just offering another perspective.

That being said, it would be cool to have a little tighter integration with Mastodon for that sort of thing. There are people here I would be happy to interact with outside of the narrow confines of a particular news article. It would be cool to link those contexts.

Good call on video embeds.