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When I go to the instance startrek.website, I get told that I'm not logged in anymore and that I need to make a new account. I did that, and then I couldn't see this instance anymore. Does this mean that startrek.website is not "federated"? Having trouble understanding all of this. Everyone keeps saying that it doesn't matter what instance you make your account on, but my first attempt at specifically going to a new instance is showing me otherwise?
Think of each instance like a mini-reddit all on it's own, you'll need to make a seperate account if you jump to another instance.
The neat is that you don't need to do that, any instance can view and engage with the content of another instance, so for example https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] is how you will visit the community on startrek.website through fmhy.ml.
This might be confusing at first, but just remember that since you have made an account on lemm.fmhy.ml, every community you browse should be through this this instance. Hope that cleared some things up. You are welcome to ask if you have any further questions though, I know this isn't the most intutive. (I've also collected some guides you might want to skim through)
Thank you! Even just seeing the url format helps me understand the relationship a lot better.
That was really handy, thank you. It was confusing at first but you made it way easier.
To add to the reply that was already given to you, I just want to let you know:
Someone is working on a browser extension so this can get fixed, even if it's just a temporary fix. So when this is created there will be no need for you to paste the link manually.
Since this is basically the inception of Lemmy we just have to be a little patient so Lemmy gets its right footing and they implement all the necessary features.