Question here from a new Lemmy user-
Is there any point to creating accounts across multiple Lemmy servers? For example if I wanted to claim the same username on a small hobby Lemmy but also a large general purpose one, does it make sense for me to create multiple accounts, or is that just a waste of time/resources?
Feel free. Different accounts allow different feeds
If there’s anyone who has any valuable input about multiple accounts, it’s this guy.
The day Lemmy has multicommunities I’ll drop most of my alts
First thing you’ll learn here: out of the 50K monthly active users, this guy makes up 1K of them.
Don’t gossip about my alt account please
Doesn’t Mbin have them? Kbin did.
Piefed does, not Mbin. I gave Piefed another try the other day, it’s nice but I’m too used to the Lemmy interface at this point.
If one day Piefed has Comments view like Lemmy does, I’ll probably switch.
Mbin must have forked too soon. Their instances are wild, feda.io has a defed list as long as my arm and mbin.earth federates with everything.
Interesting about Piefed, thanks.
you mispelled both domains
Wait a minute, you have a lemmy.dbzer0.com account?
Is it magical?
That’s been my “meta” account for a while now. Really like how @[email protected] manages the instance, [email protected] is public service for the whole platform
I don’t really see a point from my perspective given how I can access everything short of facist communities.
the only reason would be to prevent impersonation
I don’t think this is a very strong reason. Anyone can create a new lemmy server and use “your” username. But tge post/comment history would be an easy proof who is the “real” user.
It helps to keep a backup account on another instance, in case there is an issue with your main server. You can export your settings and subscriptions from your main account and import to another Lemmy instance.
I mean if you don’t want others to get to it.
Or if say you want to participate on 2 seperate servers that don’t federate eachother.
But in general a small hobby lemmy instance, can join all the communities on the large general purpose one. Hence, you are talking from a server I’m not familiar with, and we’re talking in a discussion on the largest most general purpose instance.
Only reason I can think of is if you are really worried of people confusing you for say a [email protected], or something.
I have 2 accounts because I’ve been here long enough that when I joined servers were a bit unstable. It’s up to you honestly, I’m usually a 1 account person but I’ve met people who have like 10 accounts
If you want to look at things from a different angle, you could also consider signing up for Mbin (fedia.io, kbin.earth) or PieFed (piefed.social, feddit.online).
I guess it might make sense for some people, not for others. It does allow you to see things from a little bit of a different angle, especially in the all feed.
Well you might want a separate account for NSFW for example
In case your home instance goes down
Moderating across instances hasn’t worked well but will be fixed in next release.
When I first got involved in this, I had a kbin and a lemmy account. I ended up focusing on the kbin, but it was useful to have the lemmy to see how things moderated. Kbin is dead now, but I still will occasionally use the lemmy to see how things look. I find it valuable. As an mbin person now, I think I should have some other instances in the mix as well. It’s a federation, and for me, I would like things to be appropriate for all of us. It’s kind of fun! Even if I am not a big user of other instances/federations?
Love your nick lol
Instances might come down, or you might be banned from lemmy.ml because you said communism is bad…
You dont even have to say that communism is bad. Saying that Stalin was kinda bad and killed millions of people gets you banned.
I think it’s a waste of time. It doesn’t really add anything. If you don’t want to lose your subscription in the unlikely event that your server/instance goes down forever, just use the export feature to make occasional backups. You can always create a new account after something happened. No need to invest that time otherwise.
You’re free to use sockpuppets though. Or if you’re moderating stuff or participate in instances/communities who don’t federate.
Back in the day I had like five Reddit accounts. I still log into one of them sometimes (no it’s not my main one, that one turned into obscene invitations for u/spez to bugger himself with a hot poker, I’m not exaggerating).
The chances of you wanting to migrate over the life of the service is high, but if you already know where you want to migrate and have bothered to create an account you should just do it. Like I was forced to migrate from kbin and I haven’t migrated to db0 from world yet because I’m too lazy to make an account.
