Handling of multiple accounts needs major improvement.
Handling of multiple accounts needs major improvement.
I love the app, but I've added a handful of accounts, and the app's handling of this is strange.
First:
Despite which account I'm logged into within liftoff, any comments I make seem to default to whichever of my accounts matches the instance of the OP. So, if I'm logged into my lemmy.ml account, and I comment on a post made by someone from lemm.ee to lemmy.world, it posts under my lemm.ee account because it matches the OP's instance.
*Edit: I think I was reading this wrong. It's not the OP's instance, but rather whichever instance it was sourced from. So, lemmy.ee /All vs lemmy.world /All. So that makes a little more sense, but it's still ignoring the account that I've logged in as.
I'm curious to see which one it uses for this post, since I'm logged in under Lemm.ee, but this is a lemmy.world community.
Second:
Browsing by All/Hot is using all of my accounts' subscriptions, rather than all of Lemmy. It's like it's expecting each account to only be subbed to its own instance's communities, which isn't how the fediverse is meant to be used. This results in a couple of weird behaviors.
The first 12 or so posts on my front page are always the pinned messages for EVERY instance in which I have an account.
I'll see most posts 6+ times because my accounts share some subscriptions... So if they're all subbed to the same lemmy.world meme community, then that floods my feed with the same meme for every account that I have added to Liftoff.
*edit 2: Maybe this was a bug, because an app restart seems to have mostly resolved the duplicates too! I'm still a little unclear about why I would choose an account on the profile screen when it auto-switches based on which instance's filter I'm using though. But now that I know that it does, I think this will work well for me!
I love the look and feel of this app, but I think I'm going to have to log out of all but one account to make it usable in the meantime.
Testing this out right now. I have a lemmy world account logged in while viewing the post through another instance.
If you're seeing posts from multiple instances, it could be the "everything" tab. In the settings it can be disabled but should be off by default. There's a different All, Local, and Subscriptions view for each signed in account for me.
Each post says via instance.here and my guess is you're commenting with whatever account matches.
Maybe that's what it was?
I didn't turn on the Everything tab. It's still off by default. Maybe the app needed a restart after I added all of my accounts, because now I'm seeing one at a time.
Each post says via instance.here and my guess is you're commenting with whatever account matches.
Yes, I think you're right. I misread that as the OP's account rather than being "sourced" from that instance's All feed. It's still strange that the app ignores my logged in account though. I'm unclear what the point of picking an account is if it automatically changes with whichever /all feed you select anyway.
Why do people need more than a single account on a social site?
I do it because not every instance is federated with each other, and I want to be able to view and interact with content.
Plus, sometimes the bigger instances have been going down due to traffic, so I just hop over to a different account.