All this talk about using mastadon account on lemmy IS BULLSHIT. Sorry but - reading about mastadon account etc made it sound like lemmy is just another mastadon instance. Or another "perspective" on the same underlying data. It kind of works but it's absolutely confusing and frustrating to try to do this. Just make a new lemmy account - which I was trying to avoid because I thought with federation I should be able to move freely between instances.

It would be nice to merge these kinds of "social media modes". I believe reddit tried to do something similar with following users etc. But it's not there yet and only hampers adoption to advertise this.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I know people will hate the idea, but these federates services need an SSO somehow.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Or a better "landing page" like an app that can manage multiple instances easily. Or merge multiple communities from different instances. But running in my browser. I'm sure this is in the works with the other lemmy clients or self hosting.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

No pun intended, it's more like federated identity (hope I'm not being pedantic)

But I'm with you. I'm the weirdo who likes their data together and uniformly vulnerable lol

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

haven't tried it but couldn't you technically login to a lemmy-app with your mastodon-account?

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe with an advanced lemmy app, but from the website it doesn't work from my experience. Or is incredibly clumsy.