Yep. Don't forget you're not limited to lemmy instances.
I'm on Kbin and follow this lemmy community from there. Commenting/reading with my kbin account and on kbin's site. But like I don't have to limit myself to kbin, you don't have to limit yourself to lemmy.
Which takes some getting used to. Hell, apparently you can access lemmy through mastodon(the fediverse twitter alternative). Apparently that sucks, but it is possible. Kbin -> Lemmy works great though.
Caveat: both lemmy and kbin are still in beta/alpha. So bugs are still being fixed as we speak. Unlike reddit it's taking the people running these instances weeks not decades to fix though.
TLDR: it all takes some getting used to, there's still work to be done, but it's already better than reddit in many ways.