When I first looked into Lemmy I thought picking an instance confined you to that instance. I think a lot of new people don't realize that isn't the case.

[–] crisisingot@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

It's definitely a new concept for people. I've been on Mastodon for a while so I'm already used to the idea of multiple instances

I think over time more people will figure it out and it won't be so confusing. Like how people intuitively understand that if you have a Gmail account you can still send emails to people on Outlook

[–] plz1@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having to register on new ones is annoying though.

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what do you mean? you only need to sign up on one, then you can follow and post in communities on any instance

[–] Malsententia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This needs to be made MUCH clearer for newbies. Like, the first thing listed on join-lemmy, and the first thing mentioned on the popular instances.

[–] LSNLDN@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you don’t need to right? You just access other instances through your own? (I actually don’t understand at all but I think this is correct)

[–] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 1 points 1 year ago

It’s like email. You can access anyone who has an email on a different server unless your server admin blocks them.