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

https://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.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

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

https://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.

  • fmstrat
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    21 year ago

    You don’t need multiple accounts. While there are two separate communities on two separate servers, you can see them both from any server that is federated together.

    • @Sreudian_flip@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      11 year ago

      That actually explains a lot. I was searching for an ADHD community and saw 2 of them. Both had similar community numbers but were different.

      I followed them both