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?
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.
Do you remember which instance you joined?
It would have to be lemmy.world, as thats the instance the account that posted this is on.
OP, what do you mean by “from google”??
So I mean, I had created my account. Looked around. Then popped off. I then closed down all my “tabs” off my phone and then wanted to go onto Lemmy yesterday. Couldn’t remember how I got onto my account before. So I “googled” Lemmy that brought me to a multitude of sites that all had Lemmy in the post or site? Idek guys. I tried to sign in to Lemmy wherever the Google dumped me off and I got the spinning wheel of death. It just spun a green circle mocking me. I lost faith in my tech abilities and moved on. Then tried again another time and caught the wheel of death again. So I was stewing about it wondering how I could be this techtarded and remembered I had to verify my email when I created my account, so I hunted that email back down and clicked on the link it provided and whammo… I was back on. But still couldn’t figure out how to get to that site without that link in my ever growing crap email… so… thought I’d ask you fine folks how to make it easier for the techtarded me…
I think that wheel just means high load. I get that too sometimes.
Your account only exists on one “instance”. Yours is on lemmy.world, when you want to log in, you always need to go to lemmy.world.
But you can still talk to people like me, and see the posts of people like me, and browse and sub to stuff on any instance. I’m on sopuli.xyz, and you can see that if you click my username (or anyone elses).
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
