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I also got an error. Lemmy is distributed? No centralized login, so I need to give my email and create an account on every SUB?

So there's no homepage with all my subscriptions?

This is not a valid replacement unless we're going to bring back RSS and start up a local reader again that can somehow auto-create accounts and re-submit comments.

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No, if you have an account on one Lemmy instance you can subscribe to or post on a community (sub) hosted anywhere. Your home instance also houses all your subscriptions.

I'm unable to login to any other server besides the original I signed up on.

It's distributed, but the login can be from any site. You don't need multiple accounts, you can subscribe to "subreddits" (not sure what they're called over there) on different servers from your instance, similar to how a gmail and a hotmail user can email each other or join the same mailing list.

Does this mean that if I go to startrek.website, I will see posts and comments from other "subs" I'm subscribed to?

Yes, you'll see posts both from startrek.website as well as other instances on the home page. You can subscribe to remote communities as long as you do it from startrek.website (and don't accidentally follow a link to another instance where your startrek.website login won't work), and all of your local and remote subscriptions will be combined in your subscribed feed on your home instance.

> (and don't accidentally follow a link to another instance where your startrek.website login won't work)

I feel like there really needs to be a browser extension that does the appropriate redirects to make this problem go away. It's a really bad UX rn.

If a the only way to fix a usability problem is via browser extension, the entire concept should have been left on the cutting room floor.

I think it's a small price to pay for removing a single point of failure, such as a greedy CEO.

Correct!

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