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?
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…
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…
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
Click on the username, it says “@username@instance” in the detailed username view