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Hyphlosion Your posts are available on lemmy.world because someone on lemmy.world seems to be following you. Or following someone who has received posts from you by having them boosted to them.
But just because your posts are on lemmy.world, doesn't mean that this automatically created a full-blown, unified user account on lemmy.world for you.
If the Fediverse worked that way, you'd have one gigantic unified user account on tens of thousands of instances of over 100 Fediverse projects, all automatically created.
And there would be no actually small instances of anything because even private instances would automatically have thousands upon thousands of user accounts, all belonging to users whose posts ended up washed up on those instances.
Like, just by me manually importing this post of you, you'd automatically gain a Hubzilla account plus one Hubzilla channel on hub.netzgemeinde.eu
and another Hubzilla account with a clone of the self-same Hubzilla channel on hub.hubzilla.de. Congrats, you could now create and edit your own wikis and simple websites, and you'd have a WebDAV cloud storage, a CalDAV server and a CardDAV server, all with a real-time, hot backup.
So if you want to use Lemmy, you actually have to register a new, fully separate account with a new, fully separate identity, even if it's under the same name.
An
actual Lemmy account would
not have an @ in its URL.
https://lemmy.world/u/[email protected] is not a Lemmy account; it's just how Lemmy displays your Mastodon account to show Lemmy users on Lemmy itself whom your posts come from.
https://donphan.social/@[email protected] doesn't take you to an actual Mastodon account either, or does it? Spoiler: I don't even have a Mastodon account under this identity.
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