Same here, but I’m still unsure if Lemmy is a good alternative. Having to sign up for every community just to upvote/downvote, comment, or post seems foolish. Posting, totally fine. Upvote/downvote and comment? That creates a problem.
I would be nice if they had centralized upvote/downvote and comments in one general login if they wanna get more users to migrate. They could allow communities to block that access if they want, for more control so only accepted users can interact, but otherwise it feels like im bound and gagged trying to use this site, at least compared to reddit.
These issues are like programming UI 101: Don’t make the user have to login to too many things or over complicate it or they won’t use it. Because of that I worry this ends up being only content interaction one way so I might as well just go back to TV or corporate media/news sites where users can’t participate.
Edit: huh, I guess you can. Well nvm this is not bad.
As long as your instance is federated with other instances you should be able to upvote/downvote/interact with any other instance’s comments, posts, etc.
You probably were trying to do so with a beehaw.org instance which was recently defederated from most other Lemmy instances
