Should I have separate Lemmy and Mastodon accounts? - eviltoast

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!

  • chris@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    You can interact on both platforms using one account, but the best experience is to have an account on each - Lemmy communities don’t work very well on Mastodon, and Mastodon users can’t be followed from Lemmy. Kbin is the middle ground which can do both.

    • Nato Boram@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Kbin also turns all your upvotes into reblogs, so you’ll be spamming Mastodon users whenever you like posts