You only need an account on one server. You can still subscribe/post/comment to communities on other servers but you kind of do it as a visitor (though it doesn't make any difference).
Some of the servers aren't friends with each other though, so there are some servers where if you have an account there you won't be able to interact with communities on specific other servers
Man, it's wild how many folks are confused by that (I don't mean that in a negative way!) I think maybe the top/biggest instances need to pin a short, bright colored video explaining the gist of how Lemmy content viewing/comment posting works for newbies.
I think the base website doesn't explain it well. Like if you go to the main page I didn't find it obvious at all how to actually start using Lemmy.
You only need an account on one server. You can still subscribe/post/comment to communities on other servers but you kind of do it as a visitor (though it doesn't make any difference).
Some of the servers aren't friends with each other though, so there are some servers where if you have an account there you won't be able to interact with communities on specific other servers
Man, it's wild how many folks are confused by that (I don't mean that in a negative way!) I think maybe the top/biggest instances need to pin a short, bright colored video explaining the gist of how Lemmy content viewing/comment posting works for newbies.
I think the base website doesn't explain it well. Like if you go to the main page I didn't find it obvious at all how to actually start using Lemmy.