Okay, so forgive my ignorance, this is all pretty new for me.
Obviously a lot of us are here as Reddit refugees. People looking for a discussion forum that scratches that itch. Fediverse sounds pretty neat. Only I’m not really sure what to make of these instances. Basically, I need a separate account for each Lemmy instance? So if for some reason .world doesn’t have what I’m looking for, I literally need to make a new account on someone else’s instance? For example, my login doesn’t work on lemmy.ca. Isn’t the point that you can comment on anyone’s post no matter what because it’s all run through Activity Pub? Or do I have to make my own instance to federate other people’s instances? Super weird.
Am I missing something here? I just want to have a place where I have 1 login and I can see the entire internet’s worth of interesting stuff. Like Reddit.
No, you don’t need to login on other instances. You can subscribe to the communities on lemmy.ca, and then post and comment on them while still on lemmy.world
Find the community you want on lemmy.ca or look for them here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Then copy that url and paste it into the search box on lemmy.world. Sometimes you need to paste and search a few times - if lemmy.world doesn’t know about a community, it has to connect to that instance and try to discover it which can take a few seconds.
Once the community shows up in the search results on lemmy.world, then simply go to it, and subscribe to it. Now you can interact with that community, by liking, posting, commenting, etc, all from your lemmy.world account.
Okay. That makes a little bit more sense. Still kind of unintuitive, but I’m liking the ecosystem so far! Thanks for the help!
Think of it like one giant company that has that has many separate buildings but all of them are connected via skybridges. Each building has its own community and culture and the ability to create within that building. If you wanted to take a walk to another building and see what they have going on, you can.