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can you login to other instance's with lemmy.ml accounts (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Designate6361@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This probably has been asked a million times, so apologies in advanced. But can we log into other instances with our login here for example if I went to lemmy.world and logged in with Designate6361@lemmy.ml should this work? Or do I just need to make an account on their instance as well ? Already know how to browse and comment on other instances but this was interesting me to know if it could be done.

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's really a lot like email, only the messages are (mostly) public instead of private.

If you have an account at gmail.com you can send and receive emails with someone at another site like mit.edu, because your mail server and their mail server know how to talk to each other (that's "federation").

But you don't have to personally log into their mail server to do that. You just use your account on your server, and the servers take care of getting messages to the right server for the recipient.

Similarly, here, you can subscribe to and comment on forums ("communities") originating on other instances. You don't have to personally log into the other instance to do that; the servers take care of that part.