Found a good image explanation of this whole thing.
Edit: update image to use light theme.
Credit goes to @[email protected]
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Uhh... What happens when I do create the same username + email on several servers?
it would be a bit like making multiple email accounts with multiple email providers. for example, if you were to signup "[email protected]" and also sign up "[email protected]", all you've done is made 2 accounts called "eskimofry" at the two different providers.
it works the same in fediverse. your account is @[email protected], but you could just as easily sign up @[email protected], or @[email protected], or @[email protected], all you would be doing is making more accounts.
these accounts don't conflict with each other in the exact same way that "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" don't conflict either. if these 2 emails are owned by different people, then it is the user's job to know which is the intended recipient.
I had the same question as eskimofry. I'm brand new here, and was under the assumption that one login was good across the fediverse. However, I am unable to login to comment or subscribe to other servers, so I've ended up with multiple accounts. Is there something I'm missing here, or do I need to create an account everywhere?
Attempting to log in to a different server is met with a spinning login button that does nothing, no matter how long you wait.
You have to search for the community you wish to subscribe to from on your server's search page. You'll navigate to it from within your server's instance and give you the ability to subscribe to it that way. For example, if you go to the lemmy explorer: https://lemmyverse.net/communities You'll note that each entry there has a link to the community, as well as an identity listed below it that you can copy. Like so:
[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])This is the identifier url to the selfhosted community at lemmy world. If you navigate directly to it: https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted but you don't have a lemmy world account, then you'd have to sign in to lemmy.world to subscribe. But if you are on another server, and you search[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]), you should be taken to it from within your instance and you can subscribe from there. The same url would also be: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] So if you get the identifier of any community, you can navigate to it from within lemmy.world with that url scheme:https://lemmy.world/c/<identifier>(minus the exclamation point).Example of navigating to a non-lemmyworld community from lemmy world: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the reply! I have since downloaded the app, and things are running much more smoothly. Appreciate the help!
Something I think is missing from the email analogy:
We're all getting a little more confused because every server basically looks the same, so it's easy to think you could log into any of them with the same login. This is misleading, it's because all the different instances are running the same core software even though they're separate instances. It would be like if the Gmail interface was open source and people created servers on Gmail.com, Gmail.world, gbin.com and even if each of them looked the same, you could only log into the one where you created your account. And regardless you could email friends with accounts at any of them.
Hope that helps.
I think the part that's so confusing is that right there on there on Lemmy page, it states that you can create an account on one server, and it is good on any server. I'm happy to say that I downloaded the app, and my experience is much more user friendly now. From what I'm reading, this has to do with the link, and where you access it from. The app is doing the heavy lifting while accessing other servers, so I'm a happy camper. Thanks for the reply!