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  • fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml
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    So, do I need to make an account there? Or because I’m here, can I get ‘over there’? I guess what I’m confused by is how to interact with it. It seems a bit duplicitous with lemmy (maybe just a different view of the same data?), but I dont know where or how to interact or if I am already by being on lemmy.

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      (maybe just a different view of the same data?)

      That’s actually really good way of describing how the fediverse works. We are all looking at the same conversation, but reading it from different servers that are providing us with their own graphical interface for that conversation.

      The reason you see ask_lemmy posts when you visit kbin is because kbin users can also see lemmy posts. Similarly, you can see kbin posts. Anyone with a Mastodon account can post and reply to both kbin and lemmy threads, too.

      but I dont know where or how to interact or if I am already by being on lemmy.

      The thread you’re posting in right now is coming from kbin, but you are replying to it from your lemmy account. So I think you’re already doing the thing you described, maybe without even realizing it.

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        The thread you’re posting in right now is coming from kbin, but you are replying to it from your lemmy account. So I think you’re already doing the thing you described, maybe without even realizing it.

        So maybe you can help me work through understanding the account part of it. Like, I’m on lemmy, we’re talking on kbin; super cool. The ‘data’ lives on kbin. But ‘we’ (royal we) ‘live’ on lemmy. What protects/ prevents some one from making a u/fomo_erotic on kbin? Anything? Say I liked the way kbin organizes the data better. Can I just use my fomo_erotic id to log into kbin? Would I have to migrate? If I’m concerned about other people in the fedi being ‘me’ should I get fomo on those ids?

        I guess these are small details and if another fomo_erotic showed up, I wouldn’t really care, but I guess what Im wondering is how far can ‘we’ go in the fediverse? What analogy would you use for the ‘id’ part of the fediverse?

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      It seems to be a common misconception that once you have a Reddit account you can use that to login anywhere on the fediverse. In reality it’s more the other way around. Your Reddit account talks to FB, YT, Twitter, IG, etc. So you’re interacting with me while I’m on kbin and you’re on Lemmy. If I wanted to, I could reply to this comment from my Calckey account (“Twitter”). And if for some reason it appealed to you, you could get this content in Friendica (“Facebook”). That’s the magic of the fediverse.

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      Think of it like email. You are on one of the Lemmy providers, while we are on one of the Kbin providers, being able to send email to each other. :D