I am still learning this whole thing and I ended up creating accounts here and on Mastodon. Is that necessary or do I automatically have a Mastodon username with my Lemmy? I used the same stuff on both accounts, can I merge them or something?
Edit: thanks everyone, I can’t respond to each comment while I’m at work, but I appreciate every one of you!
you make a great point, and not understanding this was the source of my initial confusion here. Looking at all the activitypub implementations listed here really helped it ‘click’ for me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub