I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn’t federating new posts.
But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.
I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I’ll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!
So can you use the same username on a different instance, or do they have to be globally unique? I decided to be polite and pick a small server to sign up on, but it seems to have limited connection to other instances.
I believe the names have to be unique on the instance-level, but not on the federal-level. So test@lemmy.world and test@lemmy.ml are two different and valid usernames.