I thought if I create an account everywhere in the lemmy universe, it’s valid for every lemmy page (like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml).

Apparently this is wrong. Do I have to create an account there again if I want to post there?

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      To elaborate on this, make sure you’re visiting the lemmy.world community from your home instance, not going to lemmy.world’s URL. Use the search button (upper right corner) to search for the community, and the result will be the link to that community from your instance.

      • Doctor xNoEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, this is a downside of federation right now. Too many linking still goes to the target instance instead of loading it in your home instance. I hear Mastodon is fixing this behavior, Lemmy should definitely follow this, imho. (Making hxxps://instance.tld/@\user equal to @user@\instance.tld)

        • Rouxibeau@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          Be sure I have on many mobile apps right now is that clicking links open to the web browser instead of in app.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
    10·
    1 year ago

    Your login is unique to the home instance. In effect your username is the full [email protected] but the @ portion gets added in when you log in on the linux.community page. There is some theoretical talk of federated identity that would let you use credentials across instances but the logistics of it seems daunting.

    You can still read and post to wherever from your home instance, so long as the other server wasn’t defederated for some reason.

    • jackalope@lemmy.ml
      101·
      1 year ago

      We badly need federated identify and or at least something portable/nomadic.

        • Nath@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          The biggest issue is the risk that your instance may die. From what I have seen, most instances have given users some warning. But yeah, a few have just disappeared, leaving their users orphaned with no history. This keeps users feeling they need to stay on the biggest instances, putting pressure on them.

          A method for allowing users to export/backup their ID and even import it to another instance would be ideal. We (admins) need a way to ensure it is the same user, a unique identifier. Otherwise, you’ll get bots importing massive comment histories onto their accounts and faking legitimacy.

          I also see this as a way for mods to maintain a ban, so a user doesn’t just migrate their account to another username/instance and continue to spam or abuse readers.