I just don’t understand all these ‘instances’ or whatever. Do you need a separate login/pw for all of them? I tried registering for beehaw for example but it just sits there spinning its wheels whenever i hit submit. Idk I’ll give it a chance I guess but I’m pretty underwhelmed so far. I just don’t understand why a forum to shitpost needs to be so complicated…
You do not need a separate login per instance. You can make one login on one instance and communicate with all the others as long as the instance you are trying to communicate with is not banned by your instance. I can give further clarification upon request.
When I try to log in to beehaw with this redditrefugee handle it doesn’t do anything, just spins its wheels forever. When I try to make a new account for beehaw it just spins its wheels out again.
I still don’t really understand the different between lemmy and beehaw, and can’t really find that list of the other communities now for other examples. The other guy said all these instances are related so you just need one handle, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case, or I’m still misunderstanding.
Think of it like an email address. Your Lemmy “instance” selection would kind of be similar to choosing to create an account on GMail. Even if your account is on GMail, you can still send mails to people on Outlook, icloud, and anything else, no matter which server you chose. Lemmy works similarly in a way: No matter where you created your account, you can interact with all instances. So I have an account on lemmy.world, but I’m commenting on your comment (you’re on lemmy.one), while our conversation takes place on lemmy.ml. And it should just work
I just don’t understand all these ‘instances’ or whatever. Do you need a separate login/pw for all of them? I tried registering for beehaw for example but it just sits there spinning its wheels whenever i hit submit. Idk I’ll give it a chance I guess but I’m pretty underwhelmed so far. I just don’t understand why a forum to shitpost needs to be so complicated…
You do not need a separate login per instance. You can make one login on one instance and communicate with all the others as long as the instance you are trying to communicate with is not banned by your instance. I can give further clarification upon request.
Thanks for helping, really appreciate it.
For example, beehaw looks like one of the bigger communities and this is the top thread right now, the reddit blackout megathread: https://beehaw.org/post/518246?scrollToComments=true
When I try to log in to beehaw with this redditrefugee handle it doesn’t do anything, just spins its wheels forever. When I try to make a new account for beehaw it just spins its wheels out again.
I still don’t really understand the different between lemmy and beehaw, and can’t really find that list of the other communities now for other examples. The other guy said all these instances are related so you just need one handle, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case, or I’m still misunderstanding.
Idk overall it’s just new and weird and scary but
Also I totally realize you guys are flooded with millions of new users overnight so there might be some technical challenges from that.
Think of it like an email address. Your Lemmy “instance” selection would kind of be similar to choosing to create an account on GMail. Even if your account is on GMail, you can still send mails to people on Outlook, icloud, and anything else, no matter which server you chose. Lemmy works similarly in a way: No matter where you created your account, you can interact with all instances. So I have an account on lemmy.world, but I’m commenting on your comment (you’re on lemmy.one), while our conversation takes place on lemmy.ml. And it should just work