Modern tech, retro tech, 80s/90s music & nostalgia. I live in northern England so most things I post about have a UK slant.

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • You may have slightly misunderstood the Fediverse.

    Accounts are not shared between different systems. They’re not even shared between different instances of the same system.

    What gets shared is the content, and the knowledge about other accounts.

    So you can follow a Kbin user from Mastodon, or vice versa. A Mastodon user can boost (“retweet”) something posted by a Lemmy user, on Lemmy. A Kbin user can upvote (“favourite”) a post that’s on Mastodon. A Calckey user can reply to a Kbin post, and that reply appears on Kbin and Mastodon and everywhere else that the thread is visible. And so on.

    But your actual account, i.e. your username & password and the profile associated with it, are firmly and permanently associated with the specific server you initially registered with.