i have one account per distinct service i use, lemmy - mastodon - pixelfed. Not sure why you'd need so many accounts? to protect your highly unique nickname?
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Same! One account per service!
I have 3 mastodon accounts, for different purposes. One personal, one more work focused, and one parody
I was on beehaw originally, then I switched to lemmy.world because I wanted to see the whole threadiverse, not just the parts that beehaw deigned to federate with, and now lemm.ee because it seems least likely to impulsively defederate, ban, or otherwise get in the way of me browsing Lemmy. Also it has downvotes. But I only ever used one at a time.
Just the one i that host myself
Dos this mean you have some kind of server running at home? (sorry if it's a silly question)
Awesome! ππ
Maybe around 10 to 30 instances
but why?
Also, I have concerns that if I sign up for only one instance, that instance may shut down one day and I could lose all my data.
But are you evenly distributing your data amongst all your accounts right now (as in commenting/posting from all of them)? Because if not, your data would be lost if your main instance goes down anyway. What's the point of the other accounts?
I can see that some instances have different rules and different kinds of names. So far, I have found that lemmy.world is the most reliable and general instance I can participate in. I discovered another instance called monyet.cc; the name looks funny. "Monyet" in Malay means "monkey." That's why I am currently awaiting their review to see if I can participate in that instance.
Just this one. The dbzer0 instance is run in a manner I agree with (as democratic as possible, many choices determined by community vote), run by an admin I respect (former top mod of r/piracy, developer of a number of software projects that significantly improve quality of life on the fediverse by killing CSAM and offering community based trust and verification of instances), has been around long enough that I have no concerns about it suddenly disappearing with no notice, and generally doesn't defederate from other instances unless they're pedo or nazi related (so I don't need to be on multiple instances to get at the fediverse content I want to see).
Plus, at the end of the day, if the instance goes down, I'll just create an account somewhere else. If I don't remember one of the communities I was subscribed to then I can't argue that it was all that important in the first place.
My main Lemmy account on jlai.lu where I got all my subs, another one on another instance I only use to admin a community over there (there is less bugs when using a local account over a remote one), and one Mastodon account that I almost never useβit's just, I don't know, maybe it's an age thing (50+) but I'm not that interested in receiving constant flow of short messages, even less so when said messages are so often emotional and/or polemical (as a general rule, I try to stay away from anger and resentment).
I have a few more accounts on various platforms I tried here and there and decided to not use. So, I would say those don't count.
Youβre not alone. It happens! Iβm around the 10 mark I think.
I see... π I'm glad I'm not alone, and I will continue to find the most reliable instance that aligns with me and complements my identity. π
Only as many as I need for grouping my subscribed communities neatly. As there are no βmultiredditsβ on Lemmy, your subscribed feed will be dominated by the popular communities, while all the small ones will be buried and forgotten. In order to solve that issue, I need a few accounts. If Lemmy grows, my need for accounts also grows. Maybe one day Iβll b have ten accounts.
Just the one right now. I haven't really found a reason to sign up for more. I also really don't want the added burden of maintaining multiple accounts. That sounds exhausting.
I also signed up to quite a few on Mastodon, Kbin (mbin), MissKey, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Loops. I did that to experience the local community. Some of those instances either ended, or became so horrific I deleted my account. I really only use 4 of them regularly.
Different interests require different accounts on different services. Not everything is served by lemmy e.g music, video, and blogs. Lemmy can't do it all --> different accounts.
Agreed. ππ
Maybe 4? I was on kbin, then signed up on two mbin instances when Ernest had to leave. And I have one account on a random instance because I needed to PM someone over there and it was the only way to do so.
Three here.
This one, kbin.melroy.org and that's all I'm ever signing up for.
Thank you for using Mbin. And my only official server.
No, thank you for making it all happen.
4 (kbin.social, kbin.run, kbin.earth, fedia.io) originally. 2 have closed already (kbin.social, kbin.run) which just leaves Kbin.earth and fedia.io
I mainly use three Lemmy accounts. Sections content/themes.
I signed up for⦠maybe 8 Lemmy, maybe 12 Fediverse things?
Lemmy, Mastodon (but donβt care for it), Pixelfed
Five (seven counting instances that have gone down or will soon). I've got an account each on Glitch-Soc, Vanilla Mastodon, BookWyrm, Sharkey, and Lemmy (this one). I plan to add Friendica, GoToSocial, and Ibis to my flock of accounts. I may add a snac2 or Hollo if I decide to add some self-hosting to the mix. Not sure I'll bother with PeerTube or Pixelfed.
What can I say? I've become a bit of a nerd about ActivityPub and I want to try (almost) everything out. π±
3: one for lemmy, one for Mastodon, one for Pixelfed. I'll also count the one for loops.video once it federates.
One on my self-hosted Lemmy, one on my self-hosted Mastodon and one on a different Lemmy instance for stuff where I want to be a bit more anonymous than with a nickname that I use on so many platforms.
Five on Lemmy, one each on Mastodon and Pixelfed (techincally two each, since I moved instances). So that's seven in total. More if other Fediverse services capture my fancy.
Every time my GF Nicole joins a new instance, I make an account on there too. She's a bit of a fediverse chick.
Our GF Nicole
4 - Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and Friendica
But do you actually have friends on friendica?
I try to stay on federated platforms that donβt require a social network effect from people I know irl.
I don't know what instances are.