yourgodlucifer,

No you would need multiple accounts think of federation like emails

You can use a gmail account to email someone on yahoo but to have a yahoo email you need to sign up

CmdrShepard,

You don't need to login to other servers. Just subscribe to whatever outside community you want through the server you signed up with and then you'll be able to read and comment in those other communities.

ArtemisDown,

No, you have to make them per instance, but its sorta redundant as each instance communicates with each other and displays the same content / can communicate with each other (example: You're lemmy.sdf, The user below me is Beehaw, and I'm shi.tjust.works)

cnnrduncan,

That's mostly true, but there are a few exceptions where certain instances choose not to federate with certain other instances. It is also possible to make an instance that does not federate at all and therefore would be locked to that single instance.

icecrmsandwich,

Im still new to this but can you still manually subscribe to a community of the "banned/unfederated" instance if you have the URL?

communist,
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You need a separate account for each server, but most content can be accessed from any server, so, it'd be kind of pointless to make separate accounts

If you want to automatically stay on your instance, there's an issue tracker for that here:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

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