I’m glad this community is here because I feel very stupid. I’ve seen videos likening the fediverse to email and phone networks. Some of what I’ve seen implies that not only are lemmy instances connected but lemmy instances can also be connected with mastodon, peertube, and others. Is this true? How to I connect to other instances or even other platforms?
The account is not transferable at all the federated part is you accessing other platforms data from your account. Like email your account is very much tied to the server you setup with.
What we need is something like openid like service to just store profile information like subs and creds and other servers to handle the data like pots and comments.
Something like that would make it even more complicated like a uri of a comment would be bob@Idserver@PostedViaDataserver. You you would just login as bob@Idserver from any data server.
Thank you for the info.