It gets more confusing when the instance you joined decides to unfederate and half of your subs stop working! Then you have to join a new instance and start over because subs nor usernames carry over.

Do you have a grasp of the fediverse now?

As of now I have an account on lemmy.world and kbin.social

I have no idea whats going on

I have like three now, because it wasn't clear that that wasn't required. I think I'm getting it more now, but it's taking a bit to get there.

Nope, still confusing

Reminds me of the good old days creating a different identity for each forum I signed up at.

i need a tutorial

I hope this place gets better with time.

And this is why you roll your own instance just for auth

I will stick to only one account. Too much accounts are pain.

New here, does it mean my username propagated to other instances?

Lol. I can barely figure out one.

So, I’ve a question. Is there a back button?
I’ll select something from my feed, but then get stuck having to then go all the way back and scroll all the way back down to where I left off.

If you have an account at one instance, you can see everything from all of the instances that are federated with that instance. If there is another instance that is not federated with the 1st instance, then you have to make an account there to see anything there

Yes, you have to create an account on every instance that exists and always use that account to interact with that instance.

If you keep a central account, one day you will anger the wrong person and they will blacklist you off the entire fediverse, losing all relationships and history to overcome ostracisation.

I even consider making a new account per instance per month. Maybe the process could be automated too.

Lmao I did this, but for Mastodon. Mastodon kinda helped me to understand the concept a better

It started to click in my head today and then once all the defederation talk started I am confused again