Im very new to lemmy.ca and to the fediverse. Im trying to figure out how to best navigate between things like lemmy.ca and lemmy.world I was under the impression you only needed one acct to go between them, but when I try my credentials at lemmy.world it says they are invalid.

Can someone maybe break this down like im 5?

Thanks in advance!

  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
    12·
    5 hours ago

    Hey there!

    You don’t need to log in to lemmy.world to view or interact with the content there. You can follow/subscribe to communities there by searching for communities and they’ll appear in your home/subscribed feed. You can also make posts to those communities.

    But, you can only create communities (‘subreddits’) on your home instance.

    Edit: even without subscribing, communities from other instances will appear in the “all” feed. You can also vote and comment without subscribing.

    And just to answer your question about accounts, your account is specific to your instance. You can’t log into lemmy.world because you don’t have an account there. So, accounts aren’t shared between instances but content is shared (as I described above).