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Its pretty similar to Lemmy or anything else in the fediverse, someones full user name includes their home server.
Your admin just needs to have configured the service to except comminication from other servers and not just its internal users.
I'm on dbzer0 and they have one. Does that mean I can just use my dbzer0 account?