What people like is having one unified account access different platforms and communities. As far as I understand Lemmy right now, it provides the opposite – a bunch of somewhat unified communities where you have to create different accounts in order to interact with each individual instance.

I think what’s confusing people is they think they can use lemmy with mastodon with pixelfed with one account. That’s not necessarily the case. Lemmy is your reddit replacement. Mastodon is Twitter. Pixelfed is instagram. You sign up for lemmy.world and you can use every lemmy connected server. Within each server is it’s own version of reddit. It’s really just adding a server choice on top of reddit/twitter/instagram. You gotta hope the server you’re on doesn’t fail and go away, because you could potentially lose everything on that server. But the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down like a centralized service like Reddit just did. There’s a risk associated with trusting a random server host as opposed to a big corp like reddit, but that’s the fun part of trying to get away from big corp owned internet services.

We’re in the wild west phase of testing new technology so there’s gonna be hiccups and failures. But the bones seem solid so far. We gotta give it time to improve. Much like Reddit was built by the community, moving over to the fedirverse means the same thing and we’re essentially starting over.