If software on the fediverse such as lemmy and kbin are connected similar to emails, how come I cannot use kbin with my lemmy account and have to create a new one for kbin specifically? Is this just a bug, or have I misunderstood how the fediverse works?

  • a_mac_and_con@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You have misunderstood. You can’t use your gmail account to sign into an outlook account. However, you can email people with the same or different email providers.

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    1 year ago

    You can’t use your Gmail account with let’s say Hotmail. I think that’s the analogy very commonly thrown around here - I’m not sure how accurate it is though

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    1 year ago

    If you create an account with Gmail, can you then login to Yahoo! email and send emails with that same account, or do you have to have a Yahoo! email address to send emails from their website?

    You can send an email from an @gmail.com email account to an @yahoo.com email account, and vice versa. But you cannot send an email from an @yahoo.com account on the Gmail website.