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Noooo? Instance? Omg. I’m so old, what does that even mean?
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…
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?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!
Your username is from lemmy.world so just go to https://lemmy.world and that will be where you would log in
The “instance” is where your user is held - that’s lemmy.world. Any other instance, like lemmy.ml or sh.itjust.works or any of that won’t let you log in because those instances don’t have your user in their databases, but you can interact with them from your log in through lemmy.world
How did you find out which domain this account belonged to? Apologies for the dumb question
When you click on a username you can probably access their profile. There it says username@instance so for this case it's written [email protected]
Click on the username, it says "@username@instance" in the detailed username view
just click their username.