User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

    • @everythingsucksEnglish
      18•1 year ago

      It definitely confused me. I’m used to reddit so the idea that I would have to have multiple accounts was a huge downside. Thanks for clearing it up… At least a littl.

      • fmstratEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        You don’t need multiple accounts. While there are two separate communities on two separate servers, you can see them both from any server that is federated together.

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

          That actually explains a lot. I was searching for an ADHD community and saw 2 of them. Both had similar community numbers but were different.

          I followed them both

    • @[email protected]
      0•1 year ago

      The post clearly mentions “c/games on lemmy.world”, not just “c/games”. Cut them some slack.