I’ve got an account on lemmy.world. “Lemmy” know if I have this right? I can search communities on other nodes but if I want to create a post in a remote community I’ve got to create an account on THAT node? Or am I missing something? Also, what is the android app everyone is liking? Jerboa is usabl, but lacking.
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No, you just need to go to that community while logged in with your lemmyworld account. Usually the url will become like this: http:// lemmy[dot]world/c/community@some.instance, and once you open that, you can post normally.
Yes, the point is to be able to participate in communities from all sorts of instances using your one account.
In fact, some people don’t even have a Lemmy account, they subscribe to communities from mastodon or pleroma. It’s not even the same kind of software but it’s compatible.
You do not need to create an account on that node as long as they are federated. I am on mander.xyz but I can post to lemmy.world and I do not have an account on lemmy.world
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To keep it simple, no, any lemmy account will work with any instance*
*As long as thag instance has not decided to de-federate(remove it’s links to another instance of lemmy) from the instance you made you account on. (Looking at you beehaw)
If you don’t want to think about it too much.
In reality, you don’t have to worry about what instance a community comes from. If you like the content, just subscribe.
But, if you want to understand a bit more, here’s a few things explained.
Here’s a break down of the menus:
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Subscribed: posts from communities you subscribe to, from your instance and other instances
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Local: posts from the instance you signed up on
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All: posts from all instances (that allow connections from your instance)
If a community is on your instance it will just be the name (ex: cats)
If it’s from another instance it will have the @ with the instance name (ex: cats@lemmy.ml)
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