Comment on How transferable is this account that I'm posting from across the fediverse?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
We had a similar thread recently here: discuss.tchncs.de/post/27868444
You are registered on a Lemmy instance and from those you can only follow communities (that are structured the way Lemmy communities are, but the backend doesn’t need to actually be Lemmy), not people. Mastodon, PeerTube etc. are places where people post to their own profiles, so you can’t follow those from Lemmy, you need to create an account on e.g. Mastodon to do that. You can combine both worlds with some backends (piefed, mbin, friendica).
Cool_Name@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cool, so I probably want mastodon and lemmy accounts, which I already have. But I’ll try to avoid making new accounts if they aren’t necessary. Are there any worthwhile sites that are compatible with lemmy?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
As I wrote, try looking for a piefed, mbin or friendica instance you like.