@nostupidquestions Can’t you log in to Jerboa using a Mastodon account and log in using a Mastodon app like Moshidon to log in to lemmy? How would that work?
The fedi community and app remains confusing to me. I don’t know if they’re separate federated communities or linked ones and if it’s linked if they are seamless. I don’t know how many levels of complexity I haven’t even considered. Maybe you can only log in through Jerboa sometimes because I can’t with my account.
I tried that when I first got here last year. I’ll spill the beans, you simply can’t do it. Despite both Mastodon and Lemmy supporting the ActivityPub protocol, they are different platforms. You can exchange posts and comments and whatnot, but you can’t use an account from one platform to log into another.
Just like email, you can’t log into Proton Mail with a Gmail account, and vice versa, despite both platforms being able to exchange emails (because duh, that’s how email works).
I hope that explains everything.