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So I'm definitely missing something with Lemmy...I've tried creating an account on their site, but it's never gone through. I know we get the same stuff on kbin as we do on Lemmy, but I was curious to (kbin.social)
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So I'm definitely missing something with Lemmy...I've tried creating an account on their site, but it's never gone through. I know we get the same stuff on kbin as we do on Lemmy, but I was curious to try both out.

Surely it's not the same account for both, right?

I tried creating my account on Lemmy about a month ago, and it just kept doing the scrolly-wheel of doom and it never appeared to go through. I tried again today to see if it would work now, but, when I try to create the account, it says that it already exists, but trying to log in does nothing.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

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[โ€“] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Manually search for the username you're trying to register. Verify that the name is unused before registering.

There's plenty of user facing error messages that don't yet exist. I've heard this one of them. Lemmy is alpha software at this point. There's a lot of work yet to be done.

[โ€“] sithbelle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Hildegarde Hmmm, that's interesting. I've never come across someone using this same username, but I do suppose it's possible.

The issue is that it's saying that my email address already exists in the system, not necessarily the username itself.

It sounds like I'm going to be looking into other instances though, so hopefully it'll all be moot soon!

Thanks for replying, and I'll definitely do a search for the username out there!