Do I really need one account per service? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common? I already have a Lemmy account and Mastodon and I didn't want to start making more just to try out the other services.

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[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 7 points 3 months ago

I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common?

It's a misunderstanding by you. It's not that you have one account on one website and can login on all the others with it. Rather, you can look at content and interact with users from other websites from your home one.

Like, it's really a lot like Email. If you're signed up with Gmail, you can freely send emails to users signed up with other email providers. But you can't just go to Outlook's online version and log in with your Gmail account. The same applies to the fediverse.

That said, if your goal is to interact with the rest of the fediverse, you're probably better off switching to Mbin. Lemmy doesn't really care about anything that's not a Reddit-like.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh no, the email comparison.

[-] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

It is how it should work though. Outlook could absolutely make a ‘log in with Gmail’ button. And the fediverse UX should be seamless to compete not this fragmented mess it is currently.