If I registered at lemmy.world, is it possible to still comment on a thread at say lemmy.ml? I get the expected “You are not logged in” and while subscribing is easy enough, I’m not able to comment or interact with other instances. This seems normal as users are unique per instance, I just want to make sure I’m not missing a key component of federated services. The sign in page at lemmy.ml says “You will still be able to interact with other instances” so that is confusing wording there as well.

EDIT: it works fine, you just need to be subbed to the other community before you can comment. Thanks /u/nulluser !

Edit 2: you don’t even need to be subbed, I still have lots to learn, lol thank you all for your patience

  • @[email protected]English
    28•1 year ago

    You don’t even have to subcribe to the other community to comment on it, you just need to “arrive” at that community/post through your instance. example, I 'm on lemmy.ml and not subscribed to lemmy.world, but comment here. I actually got here from browsing ‘All’ from lemmy.ml so I was already within my instance.

    The other method would be to go to your home instance, I’m using lemmy.ml in my case, go to the search and search for either the instance or user you want. Instances start with ! and users start with @. So either [email protected] or @[email protected], then you can click through and you’ll be able to comment on it from your instance and it will have an instance link. In this case, this post through lemmy.ml is url https://lemmy.ml/post/1185740

    • @ArtVandelayOPEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      Thanks, it seems I’ve got some research to do on how this all works, I’m saving this comment though thanks

    • @Katana314English
      8•1 year ago

      Question. If you live on instance 1, and located a useful post on instance 2 through a social link or Google search, is there an expedient way to go to “instance1/instance2/thatpost”? So far, my process has been to search the community link, and then Ctrl+F for the post title.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        I haven’t found a better way than that unfortunately. Supposedly the devs are working on a better way, but idk.

    • @WeerdoEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Hmm, so if I could question.

      I get the instance data sharing and the federation, but are things like logins / users a swarm / shared type of information? IE if the server I’m at home on goes down does my account go with it?