I’m probably the only one struggling with this, and if so I apologize… but like how do I login to Lemmy from Google with my username and password? I’ve tried unsuccessfully several times over the last 24 hours and the only reason I’m here now is I finally thought back to how I originally got onto the site was through verifying my email. That’s how I’m here now… but just if someone could please ELI5? I’m not a techie… at all… pretty please?

  • xffxe4@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Your login only works on the instance you signed up for. It won’t work on other Lemmy instances, but you can still access any content across all the different lemmy sites by searching for it on the one you have an account for.

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        This might be hopeless, I can’t even remember what I was looking at tbh. I saw someone link Lemmy on Reddit to say “this is an alternative “ and I clicked that link. And then I clicked sign up. That’s how it happened, but as far as I can tell I can’t access the site from googling Lemmy world… or Lemmy… and that’s where I’m confused. I’m sorry. This is probably very basic stuff here and it’s going wooosh over my head…

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          Lemmy isn’t just one website. It is hundreds of different websites. But if you sign up for one of them you can access the others as well.

          But it looks like you signed up at lemmy.world and chose the username itsyourmom. The password has nothing to do with your Google password. It can be something else. But it you were able to post here, so I guess everything is all right now, yes?

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            1 year ago

            Yes, I have all of you to thank for helping me figure this out! I don’t have an app or anything for this site, and as I said I’m no genius at technology. I have successfully logged into my account from a Google search of Lemmy.world. I can’t thank you all enough for helping me!