No, this isn't how this works. Each instance manages its own users in its own database. All that is federated is the posts and comments. You should be able to post and comment to other instances' communities but if you want an account on another instance you have to create one.
schnurrito
joined 1 year ago
No, I have plenty enough to read on Mastodon and don't need another way to get updates from news sites and blogs (which is all Mastodon is useful for to me).
Yes although I would argue cars and highways are just evolutions of horse carts on dirt roads, a way older technology than trains.
Yes but only on desktop, not mobile. I use lemmy from both.
Bread comes in too many different shapes and sizes for this to have a universal answer.
Several, and thank you for making me aware of those in the OP, I was until now only subscribed to one of them.
To a different license that, objectively, is not free and open source.
Yeah just 1096 left for a round number
Can we stop blaming platforms for what their users post on them?
It's not TikTok, Telegram, Twitter, Mastodon, Lemmy spreading misinformation (or correct information for that matter), it is their users. People used to understand this, somehow they don't anymore.
I have no idea who you are or what else you have ever posted to lemmy or anywhere on the Internet. I assume that when people on the Internet talk about their experiences, they are probably telling the truth; only if it is plainly impossible or implausible that it might ever have happened to anyone do I start to think they are lying.
Oppression of young people is the only one that seems to get worse over time