2y ago

multiple accounts

I found the lemmyverse super confusing for the longest time, especially how so wildly different looking sites would interact.

I see every so often people talking about more than one account on different instances.

Why should i, or why shouldnt use more than one?

What benefits would I, a very average user gain from it?

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It's useful to have an alt because some instances block other instance you might be interested in.
Also, performance and availability reasons. If lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or in your case beehaw.org goes down, you can just use your account on another instance as if nothing happened.
There's also been situations like vlemmy.net which the admins seems to have decided to pull the plug with no warning and disappeared, then there's lemmy.fmhy.ml whose domain just got cancelled among many other free ml domains and is/was down for an extended period of time.
- Sure but how would I go a out syncing all these accounts in terms of content I have seen, communities or similar? It seems to be an awful lot of effort
  And I even noticed some difference in content on the same community on different instances so thats also a little weird
  
  You can use this tool to help. https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim When you unsubscribe, you have to unsubscribe from each account manually, though.
Besides what max_p explained, my reasoning was/is this:
I am a Reddit refugee. I did not want to have one corporation “in charge” of my account anymore on a platform. That is why I like the idea of the fediverse. Multiple instances make it more “resilient” towards “strange” decisions or decisions that don’t align with my ideas.
However, on one instance, the admin is the sole responsible (who does not even have to explain the decisions to a board or something). So making sure you are active on multiple instances counters their “power”.
I even went so far as to running my own instance. Because then I can be the crazy dictator if I want to.
- Crazy dictator eh? I can get behind that. What’s your instance?
  
  Their instance seems to be a waste of space (/s)
  
  Waste-of.space :)
Yeah, one main and one porn.
I find it super convenient. Got 2 lemmy accounts - 1 on feddit.de and one on lemmy nsfw for... you know, reasons
- Be horny on main you coward
  
  I need to know what you weirdos jerk off to
This could be considered a support question but it's less of a "how do I?" and more of a "why should I?" so leaving it up.
I'm newish to the whole fediverse thing myself. I've made 3 lemmy accounts on different instances mainly due to lemmy.world being a bit unstable and Lasim making it easy to migrate communitya.
Also made a kbin, mastodon and because I read a lot a bookwyrm account.
- Couldnt you do that with one account since its all the fediverse?
  
  Nope I don't think so but the 3 lemmy accounts might be overkill I'll maybe delete my original lemmy.world one. I think 2 are needed in case an instance has issues.
Having more than one account is really convenient. You could still browse the fediverse if your instance goes down or something else happens to it. Also you might want a new account because you instance federates(or doesn’t) some other instances. But this can also get out of control. I have 5 Lemmy accounts, 2 kbin accounts, on kbin.social and artemis.camp, so I can use artemis, and 1 account on mastodon
- But you can't sync your subscriptions between your account, right? If using the second account as backup you'd have to subscribe to your communities twice.
  
  I think someone shared an extension to sync them in this thread

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