[zelifcam]

I can log into Mastodon and search and find the user I created on lemmy. I can also search, follow and look at the posts @[e-mail]. All from my Mastodon app/account.

I think what we are seeing is a taste of what could be, as the technology improves and the UIs of the clients become more friendly and add features to leverage the tech.

We are watching it all happen in real time. Problem is everyone wants a polished experience day one. It’s going to turn a lot of people off, but I’m not sure there’s anyway around it. Once refined, this is the kind of tech could be key to the people controlling the future of social media.

[mahogany]

Couple questions as I try to understand:

> I can log into Mastodon and search and find the user I created on lemmy. I can also search, follow and look at the posts @[e-mail]. All from my Mastodon app/account.

So is your user registered at lemmy? Or at lemmy.world? Is there a difference?

And you can view the posts at @[e-mail] - but do you have to have a separate beehaw account to post?

[beowulfey]

Lemmy is the software that runs on all the servers. Lemmy.world and Beehaw are separately running that software. You make accounts on either server (just like you can make a Gmail account, or a Hotmail account), and do all the things with either account on either server.

Well, you could, but Beehaw basically blocked Lemmy.world. But otherwise the metaphor holds true. If you make an account on some other instance, you can subscribe to communities on Beehaw, post on Beehaw, and reply to users on Beehaw posts. When doing so your username, instead of being e.g. "mahogany", changes to "mahagony@[LEMMYSERVER]". That's how you can tell who is a user of that particular server.