It gets more confusing when the instance you joined decides to unfederate and half of your subs stop working! Then you have to join a new instance and start over because subs nor usernames carry over.

Do you have a grasp of the fediverse now?

It was confusing at first

The confusion never went away. Beehaw defederated, so I understand that you would then have to create a specific Beehaw account in order to engage with Beehaw communities, but why would I want to as a Lemmy.world user, is what I'm confused about.

I have like three now, because it wasn't clear that that wasn't required. I think I'm getting it more now, but it's taking a bit to get there.

As of now I have an account on lemmy.world and kbin.social

I have no idea whats going on

Nope, still confusing

i need a tutorial

Reminds me of the good old days creating a different identity for each forum I signed up at.

And this is why you roll your own instance just for auth

I hope this place gets better with time.

Lol. I can barely figure out one.

New here, does it mean my username propagated to other instances?

So, I’ve a question. Is there a back button?
I’ll select something from my feed, but then get stuck having to then go all the way back and scroll all the way back down to where I left off.

Lmao I did this, but for Mastodon. Mastodon kinda helped me to understand the concept a better

I have 2 with the idea that if my home instance went down I’d still be able to see what’s going on. Not that I’m concerned about a mass failure, more for like server maintenance downtimes.

Yes, you have to create an account on every instance that exists and always use that account to interact with that instance.

If you keep a central account, one day you will anger the wrong person and they will blacklist you off the entire fediverse, losing all relationships and history to overcome ostracisation.

I even consider making a new account per instance per month. Maybe the process could be automated too.