If I want to comment on another insurance such as beehaw.org, do I need to create a different account or can I log in with one that I created on lemmy.ml?

[–] SamSpudd@lemmy.lukeog.com 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Echoing on from @howdy, think of it as email: if you have a gmail account, you can still talk to someone with a yahoo account. The same principle applies here: given the URL (link) to community, you can subscribe to it and view all posts on it using an account on any server, so the sign up server does not matter to have access to all content.

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

instances can and do communicate with each other, that's the whole point of fediverse.
You can use a single account to comment and post in communities from other servers.

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[–] grumpychocobo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly thought of spinning up my own instance in a Docker container on my NAS but I'm hesitant to open my NAS up to the internet in any form so I've held off. This would just be for personal use though rather than taking on additional users.

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[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I think people naturally tend toward the servers of the people that started the project and also the servers that have the most people on them. As the federated technology continues to smooth out I think more people might be more comfortable spreading out to other servers.

Personally I started out on the Beehaw server but they had some rules I didn't like so then I found another server.

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[–] foreverandaday@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

listen, I'm willing to go to smaller instances if necessary, but for the same reason I signed up for mastodon.social - I want my local community to not be a desert, if at all possible.

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy world was the only one that let me sign up lol

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[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I just don't get why every other reasonably big alternative bans lemmygrad.

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[–] MarsRT@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I was just trying to look for the most general instance possible.

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

Other servers are snappier than lemmy.ml

[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

UwU from the blahaj.zone

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

lemmy.one gang

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