Cool to see.

I am curious though, does Slackware do anything that other Distros can’t?

Is there a reason to choose it over say Debian or Fedora aside from it being around for so long and the nostalgia factor

No. Thats not how Lemmy works. Reddit added this feature a while back to make it more like other social media sites.

We dont need to emulate that.

Mastodon is designed for following individual people.

Lemmy is designed for following communities. Mixing one with the other now will only slow development and confuse new users.