I have one account I use for everything, I'm too lazy to have alts
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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That doesn't sound like a lot of pancakes
One in Lemmy.world. Made it when lemmy.ml was suffering from outages, and returned to lemmy.ml when lemmy.world got pissy about piracy. By then, lemmy.ml was good to go.
That lemmy.world account just collects dust nowadays.
That lemmy.world account just collects dust nowadays.
The piracy thingy gave the same ending to mine in favor of lemm.ee, the good thing about the Fediverse is that if any other aggregator site, like Reddit did the crappy/un announced move like that we would get rekt... Meanwhile thanks to the Fediverse we could react and stay here without losing it all... That seems like the fucking future if you ask me.
Every single user of the lemmyverse is one of my alts :)
Even this acconut
Stop keeping us down!
I don't have any alts in the usual sense, but I do the same thing I used to do on reddit which is switch to a new account every couple months. I just don't like having all my opinions on everything in one spot long term. The nice thing here is that you don't have to jump through hoops with a new account like you did on reddit (karma requirements, age requirements on some subs, etc).
this is my only account
I made three different accounts but I really didn't know what instance to use at first. Now I have landed at the only one I use.
What are the differences between instances, functionality wise?
Not a whole lot. One I used had no down votes and another kept going down. So I just stuck with lemm.ee but alot of the communities I use are on other instances. That is what I didn't get at first, that you could subscribe to any community on different instances unless they got defederated from your instance.
Just 2, one admin account and one "undercover" account. If lemmy could add support for hiding admin/mod tags when we aren't making "official" announcements that would be great. Unfortunately the devs seem to dislike the feature, so alt account it is.
I don't mind the admin tag. Only users on my own instance can see it and I like being accessible to them. I think I've brought out the "mod" voice about twice, ever.
Edit: oh to answer OP's question, I have a couple of alts - all the same username and used to test different apps or federation. I don't know if there are any instances blocking aussie.zone, but I'd use them to check if a user makes a query. I only comment/post with this account.
i have a porn account but the porn on this app sucks
...which could be a good thing but I don't think that's what you mean.
I have 3, the original one I signed up with after the Reddexodus at the community I identified most with at the start, one with the same name on a community I prefer more now, but keep the old one as a backup. And a final one for porn.
This is the main account, then I have an alt for NSFW.
I created an account for posting manly-hairy nsfw pics, and I'm not posting anything :)
It's never too late to get started π
I've got four accounts, and I use them all for basically the same thing, although I try to post more to native instances with each account
What's the benefit of that? I thought the point of the Federated nature of it all was so it all links together no matter what your local instance is.
The benefit is I don't have all my content in one instance. Also there are a few communities I like that might not be federated with a specific instance, but are on another. There's been some talk about beehaw leaving the fediverse, and if it does I'll follow, but I'll probably check this account from time to time.
To me, the benefit of the fediverse is no advertising and no monetization or artificial promoting of posts.
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Just 1 so far. In the future I might make an alt on another instance as a backup or something, but so far it doesn't seem necessary. My current instance has a ridiculous amount of donations and a good sysadmin so I'm not worried about it disappearing at the moment.
Unlike when I was on Reddit, I use one account for everything now.
Just this one
I only have one alt in the Lemmyverse and the only reason I have it is because I'm a burrow mod and an admin informed me that reports made by Lemmy World members don't show up for Lemm Ee mods, so she (the admin) asked if I could make a Lemmy World alt to help me check reports made by members. The alt is @[email protected]
Reports being shared across instances sounds like it would be an useful feature. Hope it gets added in the future.
One of the things I miss about Reddit is being able to create accounts without manual approval, and/or without having to supply an email address.
None or about a dozen, depending on how you want to look at it.
I have about a dozen accounts on various instances, and four or five that I use regularly, but they're not really "alts" since they're all the same name - Rottcodd. Unless someone checked the @s and compared them, they likely wouldn't even realize they're not all the same account.
I started out doing it that way because when I first moved here, I just signed up for whatever instances looked appealing for whatever reason, just to try them out, and figured I'd settle on one later. I kept doing it that way because I discovered some advantages.
Each instance actually feels a bit different, since they have different moderation policies, different sets of federated vs. defederated instances, and different sets of communities that members have subscribed to, so different Alls. And I've emphasized that by having different subscribed and blocked lists on different instances.
So if I want to wade through chaos and maybe do some shitposting, I have an account for that. If I want to read or post about gaming or technology or popular media, I have an account for that. If I want to read or post about the arts, literature, society, philosophy and the like, I have an account for that. And if I just want to see comfy, pleasant stuff like cat pictures and recipes, I have an account for that.
My alts are always on my same name. It helps me not have to remember, but it helps me to compartmentalize.
I have one over on lemmy.world that I made when RiF went down and it pointed to that instance. 'Reddit is Fun' was my trusted app of choice for so long that I figured that I'd go with their recommendation.
That mindset was apparently shared with a lot of people, and lemmy.world became overcrowded and unusable every other day for a while due to traffic. That's when I read that one should get registered at a closer and/or smaller instance in order to have better service.
That's when I moved over to SDF's shockingly fast lemmy instance.
For what it's worth, lemmy.world has been exceptionally stable for a while now.
I probably just jinxed it, though.
This is my main account, Iβve got a backup on Kbin in case my main instance is down. And Iβve got another on Beehaw because they donβt federate with sh.itjust.works.
Theyβre all called Thelsim though, so I guess theyβre not really alts?
One for each service I offer.
Three. I started with FMHY but that was taken down to a domain name issue then went over to dbz0 before having a 2FA issue. I got that account back but I am here on the smaller leminal.space
4 total. This is my main. I also have one on lemmy.world for moderating a few communities on that instance, one on kbin that I don't use, and one for occasional shitposting.
4 but Iβm only currently active on 2. One is my primary, the other for porn.
porn
Instance?
Probably lemmynsfw.com
I am presently using this account exclusively since it's working well. This is my 6th or 7th account since joining in July. I was having some technical issues with my accounts on other instances. It's a long story... Started with reddthat.com. I will stick with my present one if this instance continues to exist and function well.