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!

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            I think maybe look at it the other way around. We should hope that one account at your preferred place (whether it’s kbin, mastodon or lemmy) be able to access everything. So if you have a mastodon account, you can already access content in the lemmyverse, albeit a bit clumsy. This is not possible from a lemmy account, afaik.

            So once everything is united, you would be able to see content from anywhere in a format you enjoy through your one account

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              @toasteranimation I feel like that’s what I’m asking for. I create one account, and then use it to log into a mastodon app to see things in a mastodon layout, and use it to log into a lemmy app to see things in a lemmy layout, etc. Currently I have one account that can only log into mastodon apps, and for some reason can’t log into lemmy apps.

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                Ok it’s early! Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes, you can only log into mastodon apps with your mastodon account, but you CAN browse lemmy communities through mastodon and even interact with them. I’ve seen videos of people doing it, but on desktop not mobile.

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                  @toasteranimation I’m actually replying to this from my mastodon account on a mastodon app, so I’m perfectly aware it’s possible. The layout is just suboptimal. I’m just wondering why can’t/if an app can be created that I log into with my mastodon account, but shows a layout like lemmy.

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                    Roger. I’m slowly coming up to speed here as the caffeine circulates. As people have explained it here, there are differences in how the microblogs and lemmy instances store their posts/comments/upvotes etc. These formatting differences at the programming level seem to be where the friction is when I’ve asked similar questions. People say, ‘well, upvotes and downvotes don’t work the same way, etc’ . I share your desire and instinctively thought it would be possible when I dove in here last week, but there are issues making a completely unified fediverse app that shows content from all places in your preferred format. I’m an Apollo refugee, so I want my Apollo-clone app (wefwef) that I’m using to show me mastodon content in MY preferred format, but it’s a no go right now. I’m sure an app will come along and make this possible soon. As of now, the kbin people are explicitly aiming to do just this (blend all content from both sides) so try kbin.social for that. I think it’s still buggy