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> Is there one account (email/password) for the whole network or one account for each site?

There is one account for the whole network.  Profiles on individual communities are auto-created when you visit a community for the first time while logged in.

It would take some work to create separate profiles on each community, so before we do that I'd want to have a discussion about the benefits.  It *sounds* like the main thing people would like to be able to vary per-community is the "about" text.  Since we now have community-specific preferences (we didn't when profiles were first implemented), there might be a way to allow per-community "about" text without creating separate profiles.  (I'm speculating; I haven't asked.)

As you surmised, the Edit and Account settings are network-wide.  (Account is stuff like passwords and 2FA; Edit is to edit the stuff shown in the profile.)  While these are network-wide and should be editable from the network profile, let's be careful about removing them from the per-community profiles.  For someone who joins and participates in one community here, the experience should be coherent.  

One possibility is to mirror those tabs (like they're mirrored on all communities now) on the network profile -- you can edit those fields from anywhere.  Another is to provide paths from the community profiles to the network profile where those can be edited -- and also provide a path *back*.  I suspect the redundancy of having them everywhere will be easier and less confusing than centralizing them, but that's just my gut feeling and maybe I'm wrong.  (In other words: just my opinion, not a directive from the staff.)  

We should probably add some text to those pages to the effect that the changes you make here apply across the network.