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!
I have separate accounts. You don’t have to, but Mastodon has a design that makes following Lemmy communities a terrible experience.
There are apps out there, like Fedilab, that have a thread view just like Reddit and such, but on desktop I don’t know about any good threaded Mastodon client.
Sadly, there’s no good way to share account credentials between the two either.