I’ve just created an account on Lemmy.world and am able to subscribe for communities in lemmy.ml. Can I use it there? Can I use same credentials for all lemmy instances? Does it make a difference where I create one?

  • 0485
    28•1 year ago

    You only use one account. The one you created on Lemmy.world.

    You can use the search function to find communities in other instances, you can upvote and comment on them too! No need for more than one account!

    • ThyTTYOP
      10•1 year ago

      Thank you, that explains a lot. Since I already got your attention, maybe you can answer one more question for me. Let’s say I’ve created another instance of lemmy on my homeserver, people have joined it, there’s some content. And then I decide to pull the plug, my server fries, whatever - does that mean all the content goes too? Or is it possible for multiple people to host the same instance so we always have a backup?

      • 0485
        12•1 year ago

        All the content will die with the server if the server fries. It’s common for hosts to do regular data backups.

        But as far as I know you can only have 1 of the same instance at a time.