I couldn’t sign into my account on a different instance, so maybe it’s not?
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Your Account on lemmy.world only works on lemmy world. Think about it like Email. You have an outlook.com address, so you can not sign in into google.com, but you can send mails to them and receive theirs 😋
Great simple explaination!
Thanks ☺️
If meta or google or Amazon enters the fediverse, we’re gonna end up with either a single centralized popular instance usebase like gmail where only one big corp ultimately controls the technology or if they mess up then the whole thing fades away like XMPP and no one will remember fediverse.
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Your account only works on Lemmy.world. But since servers communicate with each other, you can view posts/comments on communities located on other servers and reply/post on communities located on other servers.
Go to communities -> All to look for communities and join commjnjties. And welcome to the Fediverse!
I’m curious, what are different instances for If they can interact with each other anyway?
Unlike Reddit, which is a for-profit company. Lemmy servers are set up by individuals or groups of individuals for the benefit of the community at large, and donations pay for the server costs.
And I like to think of instances as countries. Each instance has its own rules and culture, and that affects how the communities are moderated. For example, the beehaw.org instance is heavily moderated compared to lemmy.world. Continuing with our example, the Technology community on beehaw.org will be moderated differently than the Technlology community on Lemmy.world.
So each instance has its own reason for existing. Another example will be https://lemmynsfw.com/ which is an 18+ instance. Basically, when you register in an instance, you become a citizen of that country.
Thank you, that explains it quite well.
This might help: https://lemmy.world/post/37906
Thanks, very usedful
Because the point of this is to be decentralized so that one company cannot control the “site”. Servers can federate with each other allowing a larger “site”. If you don’t like one alérgico server for whatever reason you can defederate them which means you no longer see their content as part of your “site”.
Idk why you deleted, but that makes sense, thank you
It had a bad typo and I couldn’t find the edit button. But glad that helped.
Your account is only your account on one instance. You can have other accounts on other instances. However, you can access and post to all of the communities, content, and posts on all federated instances from your one account on one instance.
You don’t need to, you can access communities on other instances via the account you already have
Just append the instance name to the URL, w.g https://lemmy.world/c/news@lemmy.ml
Notice the “@lemmy.ml” part? That means I’m navigating to the news community on the lemmy.ml instance.
There are extensions that’ll make sure you’re always on your home instance
It’s been explained to me to think of it like email. Your gmail account won’t get you into your yahoo account and vice versa BUT the two can communicate with each other. I think I got that right anyway… :)
You can view communities (and post and comment there too) on other instances, but your account is only on the single instance.
Just want to add something… Make sure the target instance you want to
loginaccess have not block the instance that your account is in.Edit: correct something wrong
Nope. Your account is technically user@example.com. You can think of it like email.
You can’t sign in to one instance with another instance’s account info, but you can view and otherwise interact with other instances from the one you’re logged into.
Yes, but not like that.
You have a membership at the instance you sign up for, and from there you can interact with the rest of the Lemmyverse. I don’t have an account on Lemmy.world, but I do have one at sh.itjust.works, and from there I’m able to browse, read, updoot/downdoot, and comment on posts in other instances.
