ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap

User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

TwoFace211,

But can I comment and reply in other instances? If that’s true then I guess who cares?

bdonvr,

This is badly written - to someone who doesn’t know any of this it reads like they’re missing out on something. Yes there’s !games and !games - but you don’t need an account on either to participate in both! You can just go there and browse, comment, etc.

Eventually one will become dominant, and it will all be fine.

JorMaFur,

BUT you can still upvote or comment on posts from different instances if you access them from within the instance your account is from!

So you don’t need to create one account for each instance.

Edit: commented from a lemm.ee account

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