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It works like email. Say you create a gmail account and your friend has a hotmail account. You don't need to also create a hotmail account to send an email to your friend. You just send your email to friend@hotmail and the magic of email takes care of the rest.
Lemmy works like that. You create an account on one instance and can make requests through it to view and interact with stuff on other instances. And you're already doing that! Your account is on lemmy.sdf.org but you created a post on lemmy.ml (and my account is at lemmy.ca) Magic!
I suppose my main concern is what happens if a server decides to close down? Would my account be lost?
From what I can tell, yes. That's why it's recommended that you create your account on a server that has not too little and not too many users. Too little and the admin could shut it down due to inactivity, too many and the server might not be able to handle all the traffic.
There's a Github page that has a list of servers and some of their stats for people wondering where to register their account: github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmt-instances