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The bell icon near the ... Menu. There's also bookmark in the ... Menu.
To access bookmarks try the cheeseburger menu top right.. tap your name and you should find bookmarks there.
Your instance may vary.
That doesn't give you a notification when there's a new comment. I assume that's what op means by follow.
I don't think it's possible, at least if it is I don't know how either.
It does on Piefed. Not sure about Lemmy.
We sort of can on our wicked awesome cool people Pylova instance, a fork of stinky Piefed. Bookmark and also reply notifications. That's a thing for both the entire post and individual comment chains, your own or others.
Lemmy webUI doesn't have the same notification inbox feature, but the bookmark button is a Star icon on Lemmy instead of a Bookmark graphic.
Edit for better new user clarity.
On Lemmy, the save function (star icon) does give a number beside the comment count icon. Like 4 comments (2 new). Still a manual check, though.
Also Lemmy's comment discovery (the chat sort method) is harder to follow with context, not as good as Kbin's unread highlighting was.
It's specifically only for top-level replies, fwiw. And you can see what you're following under Activity Alerts.
If you want notifications for other people's comments (not top-level) they have bells for that per-comment.
That's for Piefed not Lemmy. They're different.