this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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Welcome! The biggest hurdle is right at the beginning. Choosing which server to register with.
After that it's got enough similar to Reddit, that it should be easy to post to your registered server and other federated servers as well.
Am I going to regret signing up to lemmy.ml rather than a more specific instance? Still wrapping my head around all this. Could I sign up on another instance w/ the same username if that instance wasn't federated?
I don't think so, but if you notice a server that has significantly more of what you want and less of what you don't want you can go and join them later!
So long as the user isn't already taken on the other server!
Awesome, thanks!
You can sign up on any and as many instances as you want, and still be able to view any content and community from any other instance. This is the point of federation.
Got it, makes sense!
The only thing I don't get, is I've seen posts on a different site (beehaw) showing up here. I kind of know how the fediverse works sort of, but is beehaw basically the same as Lemmy running the same software? I managed to sub to a couple of beehaw things from here which is cool, but it looks like a separate site. Do you need to sign up on both?
I'm also new to this, but I think I understand the basics;
If any of what I've written is wrong, hopefully someone will correct me à la XKCD