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Do I need to make a new account for every Lemmy instance? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried to sign in to Lemmy.ca with the account I created on the Lemmy.ml and it didn't work. Any reason for this? (I am very new to Lemmy and am still learning how to use/understand how all the instances work)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

You can think of Lemmy and federation like email. You can receive and read yahoo mail on your gmail account, but you obviously can't login to yahoo with your gmail account. Lemmy works the same way more or less except these "emails” (posts and comments and upvotes etc... ) aren't private but public. You can see and interact with lemmy.ca's posts from here on lemmy.ml by clicking on "all” as opposed to ”local” on the front-page. That's where the posts from lemmy.ca get ”pulled” to lemmy.ml, and if you comment the comment gets sent to lemmy.ca.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago

This is the clearest explanation I have heard, thanks!