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?

It was confusing at first

The confusion never went away. Beehaw defederated, so I understand that you would then have to create a specific Beehaw account in order to engage with Beehaw communities, but why would I want to as a Lemmy.world user, is what I'm confused about.

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.

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

I have no idea whats going on

i need a tutorial

Nope, still confusing

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

I hope this place gets better with time.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I have 2 with the idea that if my home instance went down I’d still be able to see what’s going on. Not that I’m concerned about a mass failure, more for like server maintenance downtimes.

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