People need to realize you can use alternatives
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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If I want to comment on another insurance such as beehaw.org, do I need to create a different account or can I log in with one that I created on lemmy.ml?
Echoing on from @howdy, think of it as email: if you have a gmail account, you can still talk to someone with a yahoo account. The same principle applies here: given the URL (link) to community, you can subscribe to it and view all posts on it using an account on any server, so the sign up server does not matter to have access to all content.
Yeah I get the connection to email now. When I went searching for something i got example@feddit.de and finally made connection to what you wrote. It's not as complicated as I initially thought. Thank you for your explanation
As a new user I find the different servers a little confusing, especially since you're saying I can interact with others just the same. What is the purpose of all that, and couldn't it be doing what it's doing in the back end without me being aware of it?
Usually, when you sign up to a service (E.g Reddit, Facebook, etc), you connect to their centralised servers, and access all data from those servers. This also carried the risk of being subject to overly harsh policies surrounding moderation or even content of posts. Lemmy is “distributed”, meaning that, since there isn’t any one person who owns all of the servers, not only can you theoretically set up your own server that you can never be banned from (since you own it), but for the influx of users currently happening, the load of all the new people is spread across a lot of unique servers which interact, meaning the whole system doesn’t collapse if one server becomes too overloaded. In theory, it doesn’t matter which server you sign up to, as you can access all content anywhere on Lemmy from it (ignoring potential blocks of other servers, though this shouldn’t be much of an issue), but what would change is both:
instances can and do communicate with each other, that's the whole point of fediverse.
You can use a single account to comment and post in communities from other servers.
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You cannot log in to beehaw.org with you lemmy.ml account, but you can react to beehaw's content form lemmy.ml.
Just paste the url of the beehaw post or comment that you want to interact with (vote, comment) in lemmy.ml's search bar.
So, to summarize:
- you browse beeehaw while being offline
- you copy the url of the post or comment you want to interact with (under the colored fediverse icon)
- you paste it in lemmy.ml's search and normally you will find it
Ooh I finally get it now. I went to search for something, and instead of "Local" pressed "All" and it finally clicked with me. Thank you very much for explaining.
No you don't need an additional account. You can follow communities from wherever** you are.
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You can interact with any community you subscribe to from your home instance.