I have registered an account on SDF’s Lemmy server. Can I use this account to log in to other servers, or do I need a separate account for each server?

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    You don’t need to login to other servers. Just subscribe to whatever outside community you want through the server you signed up with and then you’ll be able to read and comment in those other communities.

  • ArtemisDown@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    No, you have to make them per instance, but its sorta redundant as each instance communicates with each other and displays the same content / can communicate with each other (example: You’re lemmy.sdf, The user below me is Beehaw, and I’m shi.tjust.works)

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      1 year ago

      That’s mostly true, but there are a few exceptions where certain instances choose not to federate with certain other instances. It is also possible to make an instance that does not federate at all and therefore would be locked to that single instance.

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        1 year ago

        Im still new to this but can you still manually subscribe to a community of the “banned/unfederated” instance if you have the URL?

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          1 year ago

          I’m pretty new too, but as far as I can tell you can’t do that. I just tried to search for a lemmygrad community through beehaw and nothing showed up, which is about what I expected with my understanding of how the fediverse works!

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    It works like email. Say you create a gmail account and your friend has a hotmail account. You don’t need to also create a hotmail account to send an email to your friend. You just send your email to friend@hotmail and the magic of email takes care of the rest.

    Lemmy works like that. You create an account on one instance and can make requests through it to view and interact with stuff on other instances. And you’re already doing that! Your account is on lemmy.sdf.org but you created a post on lemmy.ml (and my account is at lemmy.ca) Magic!

    • esm@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      I suppose my main concern is what happens if a server decides to close down? Would my account be lost?

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        From what I can tell, yes. That’s why it’s recommended that you create your account on a server that has not too little and not too many users. Too little and the admin could shut it down due to inactivity, too many and the server might not be able to handle all the traffic.

        There’s a Github page that has a list of servers and some of their stats for people wondering where to register their account: github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmt-instances

  • miles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    the only benefit i can see so far of having accounts on multiple instances is being able to login again when a certain instance goes down, which i’m hoping will happen less as things progress lol