I am still learning this whole thing and I ended up creating accounts here and on Mastodon. Is that necessary or do I automatically have a Mastodon username with my Lemmy? I used the same stuff on both accounts, can I merge them or something?
Edit: thanks everyone, I can’t respond to each comment while I’m at work, but I appreciate every one of you!
I keep them separate – I don’t like a single point of failure, and we’re all so early on the fediverse stuff that I’m sure a few servers and services will implode in the near future before things settle down. Would be a real hassle to have everything attached to a single account.
This was my thought exactly! I ended up signing up for access on 11 servers in a mix of mastodon, lemmy and kbin. Probably went overboard.
Separate seems smart. Interacting from Lemmy to Mastodon and vice-versa isn’t exactly the most user friendly experience, since neither platform was really built with those type of interactions in mind.
Perhaps in future it’ll be more seamless.
I went with both (mainly because I like different usernames for different apps/sites) but see what looks like people using one login for both.
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I similarly have separate logins. One day there’ll be easier integrations, but I don’t think kbin is it for now.
They have different UIs that are better tailored to their respective platforms so imo it’s better to have accounts on both.
You don’t need to have a single account for everything and it’s far better for several reasons not to, even when it comes to Lemmy. Your browser and apps remember your account details for you anyway.
You can interact on both platforms using one account, but the best experience is to have an account on each - Lemmy communities don’t work very well on Mastodon, and Mastodon users can’t be followed from Lemmy. Kbin is the middle ground which can do both.
Kbin also turns all your upvotes into reblogs, so you’ll be spamming Mastodon users whenever you like posts
