That’s odd, you shouldn’t need another account. I’ve even made posts from this account to another instance
v81@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The biggest thing killing Lemmy for me is needing a seperate account on every single instance if I want to participate in anything on an instance.
I thought this wasn’t how it was supposed to work.
I saw this post on another instance and tried to reply this exact message but got an error saying I couldn’t.
Using Liftoff if it matters.
vind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You definitely don’t need accounts for every instances (as long as you’re not defederated). That sounds like an app bug or something.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
On Liftoff you need to “open using another instance” and then choose the instance your account is on
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I just subscribe to whatever content I want to see. Wish my feed defaulted to subscribed instead of all because I hate lemm.ee.
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Also it can be really hard finding small communities from a different instance, a lot don’t show up or aren’t fully synced so some of the posts don’t show.
Hopefully this is going to be fixed but I think it’s limiting the growth of more niche communities.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t seem to have that issue using Jerboa. I am on Lemm.ee and have no issues commenting on Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc posts. The only case where I could see not being able to is if there was defederation which the admin of lemm.ee does not want to do, even with the genocide deniers of hexbear.
shagie@programming.dev 1 year ago
There is some friction of finding posts from federated content on your own instance, but you will note that I am posting from (and see this on) programming.dev rather than lemmy.world (where this community is hosted).
You need to be logged into your instance, search for the post on your instance, browse it via search, and then you can interact with it there. You don’t need to create an account on the other instance to interact with it.
And yes, that list of steps mentioned above is a lot of friction.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They might be talking about instances that have been defederated from each other?
shagie@programming.dev 1 year ago
I’m going from:
And suspect they were doing something like browsing Lemmy.ml / all while not logged in and saw it but couldn’t interact with it until they came back to lemmy.world where it was easy to find and interact with.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hello! Dev of Summit for Lemmy here. Summit actually supports switching accounts while keeping the same post open. Of course due to defederation it is not always possible to open a post on another account but it tries it’s best.