Can I log in with my actual account (of lemmy.ml) to other communities or federations or whatever they're called instead of having to create a account for every site (like lemmy.dbzer0.com)?

Nicola ( Nicola@lemmy.ml ) · 3 years ago

Can I log in with my actual account (of lemmy.ml) to other communities or federations or whatever they're called instead of having to create a account for every site (like lemmy.dbzer0.com)?

𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 ( maniel@lemmy.ml ) · 3 years ago

nope, but you can browse resources of other servers here on lemmy, if they’re federated, list of federated/blocked instances is available under “instances” link at the bottom of each page, some instances defederate each other for some reasons, shit just happens

Scooter411 ( Scooter411@lemmy.ml ) · 3 years ago

I’m pretty new here too, but from what I understand you’d need to create a new account if you want to log in to Lemmy.dbzer0.com - however, you can subscribe to communities on other instances from your Lemmy.ml account. Search for the other community by typing it in the search bar like this; !communityname@lemmy.dbzer0.com and then you can subscribe.

Slashzero ( slashzero@hakbox.social ) · 3 years ago

This is correct. You don’t need a user on each instance. You just subscribe to remote instances’ communities from your home instance, and interact with posts as usual.

Max-P ( Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) · 3 years ago

Or in the address bar, like this: https://lemmy.ml /c/div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

You can also go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, set your home instance to lemmy.ml (or whichever you want), and it’ll automatically link you to the correct place to see it on your home instance.

There’s also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/

GadgeteerZA ( danie10@lemmy.ml ) · 3 years ago

I just search for them on my home instance, subscribe, and then comment/vote from my home instance. No reason to sign up everywhere.

jard ( jard@sopuli.xyz ) · 3 years ago

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KiofKi ( KiofKi@feddit.de ) · 3 years ago

No, but normally you shouldn’t have to. You can still see and interact with all communities on the instances your instance is federated with. You’d only need to create a new account on an instance that has been defederated from your “home” instance (for example you account is on lemmy.ml but you want to interact with beehaw.org)

UrbenLegend ( UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml ) · 3 years ago

I keep hearing conflicting reports of whether beehaw has defederated from lemmy.ml. I don’t actually think this is the case. I’ve been posting comments in beehaw communities just fine and another user told me lemmy.ml isn’t on beehaw’s defederation list.