I've joined Lemmy.ml. Someone sent me a link to a video posted on Feddit.nl - I thought I could log in and upvote/comment using my Lemmy.ml credentials. Wrong!

Why is this? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm relatively new to the fediverse. But I thought that they were all federated so you can interact with all instances??!

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[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you all for explaining.

The behaviour I was expecting was to click 'login' on the feddit.nl page, and that login page to recognise that I was logging in with the credentials used by lemmy.ml, and to log me into lemmy.ml instead, and then to be redirected to the 'local' version of the link on the lemmy.ml instance.

Rather than it just be a feddit.nl login page only, and be told 'log in not recognised'. That's where my confusion came from. I'm like "wait, I can't log into Lemmy here? why?!"

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, that makes sense. I might create a post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca to make other new joiners aware of that issue