How many accounts do you have, and how do you manage them?
How many accounts do you have, and how do you manage them?
And how many of those accounts are for NSFW content?
For the sake of anonymity, people without separate accounts can pretend to be sock-puppets of those answering.
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This is the way.
Though, my Lemmy illiteracy has lead me to make an account per instance. So I have one here, .world and nsfw. Is it possible to go on different instances with the same account?
Yes. You can use the search function for that, just search for "community@instance", so for example "worldnews@lemmy.world".
Linking to communities from other instances works similarly, using a "!": !worldnews@lemmy.world
You can also append this type of address to your instance url like so:
https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews@lemmy.world
As long as another instance is not explicitly defederated (blocked) from yours, you can visit any community from any instance this way.
I have 3 on different instances with all the same subscriptions in case one goes down.
I should have done this. vlemmy.net died and I lost all my subscriptions :(
Same, literally just finished subscribing to 50+ communities the day before it went down :'(
Yeah, I've got a similar deal going on with mine
One on lemmy.world (June 15th), this account I've made on lemmy.fmhy.ml (July 3rd), and one on lemmynsfw (also July 3rd). My lemmy.fmhy.ml account is my main now, I only login on lemmy.world if I want a more up-to-date feed and content, though the lemmyverse has already gotten bigger and has more content nowadays so that's no longer necessary.
You mean Fediverse accounts? I have one for Lemmy and one for Mastodon. Boring? Yeah, I know.
One on lemmy.world and one on kbin.social, because I wanted to try out both. I only use Lemmy, but I'll keep kbin as a backup in case there's any shenanigans with Lemmy in the future. And I still have my old Reddit account cause I can't bring myself to delete it, but that profile just points people to my Lemmy account.
I have one Lemmy and one kbin as well. Seeing what develops.
Ummm, I'm not sure?
Back on reddit, I had two main, my author account, and a novelty account. Wanted to keep things simple. One main for browsing, another for moderation. The author account for self promotion and such. The novelty account was for the joy of entering a simple little phrase whenever discworld would come up.
Sadly, for some reason, my textpand doesn't work in lemmy apps, and I haven't typed out the formatting for it in ages. But it was a version of foul old ron and used one of his gibberish phrases along with the clacks overhead the sir Pterry
But, I had tried lemmy out a bit last year or the year before, and had deleted those accounts. I have the two user names I used most on reddit registered at a couple pf instances, plus a handful of others for redundancy, my author account, and three accounts that are actually my cousin's, but he isn't using regularly that I'm subscribing to things I know he likes.
I've kinda lost track tbh. I have them all in my bitwarden though, but I only keep one or two logged into any given app, so I don't have them all in one place without messing with BW
But at least a dozen.
Just this one, I don't see a need to have any alts right now. I might later on for NSFW if I want to subscribe and vote, but there's basically no NSFW lemmys worth using yet so...
Fetishists are always last to the party huh?
You mean first? Last I checked all there is is furry stuff and lemmynsfw had a cringy obsession with celebrities, like dozens of communities for every celebrity imaginable.
Upon review it appears it's a bit more on the normal side and pornlemmy seems to be a new, saner thing.
Still not a whole lot of softcore though.
You could create a linktree with the list of servers you're on
1 main account, 1 alt account. This is a use case where I fully appreciate the separation caused by federation; my alt account is on a separate instance and therefore is completely, wholly separate from my main.
I have four due to instance shopping, but there's only one I use all the time and one I use as an alternate. Would be nice to be able to synchronize them.
NSFW I don't care about, it's enabled. I only browse stuff by subscription where that stuff rarely comes up. Can't imagine the garbage I'd have to sift through setting my front page to "All".
Three, browser
Coincidentally, I just now opened a second account after opening the first a week ago. I decided I wanted a different @username. I don’t know why I used my Reddit username the first time. I’ll delete that one soon — I only made two post comments with it.
I do have a Mastodon, too.
3 - this one is my main one, then one on kbin.social and one on lemmy.world. When I created the other 2 I basically couldn't log in to them because the servers were too overloaded, but this one let me straight in so this is my main one now.
Just two, one I first signed up with and decided was a mistake, and then the one I currently use. I'll probably make a third for nsfw eventually but that's low on the list while I'm still settling in
I have 3.
First was Lemmy.World, because RIF suggested it with its final update message.
Second was Yiffit because I need my furry femboy stuff and didn't find it on Lemmy.World and didn't know I could use the same account for it yet.
3rd was sh.itjust.works as a backup for when the other 2 are down/slow.
On Reddit I just had 2. My main one, and the one I used to get around a really stupid and hypocritical ban on /r/gaming. Perma banned for mentioning what PS .bin file version was needed for NA games on an emulator; not linked, didn't even tell them where to get it, just gave them a version number. In a thread about how to get PCSX to work. 🤦♂️
I've got 2, largely out of curiosity for what defederation meant as far as user perspective.
When exporting comes online I'll likely make an effort to spin up an instance if it's still feasible... So there will be a 3rd cake?On the positive side I don't think you're going to find many people wanting to sock puppet mild takes and noise rock.
- 1 for normal stuff, and 1 for NSFW.
I have 4, one in kbin, one in world, one in shit, and this one... :D
At the moment, I have... seven, I think. I mostly use two - one at kbin and one at lemmy.ninja. I have one at lemmy.world that I check in on occasionally, but there's generally too much junk to wade through there. And I have one at lemmy.nsfw for... you know... stuff. The rest are languishing.
I just open them through my browser. I have a tentative plan to switch to an app, but I'm waiting for them to get a bit more settled first, and really the browser works fine.
I find each instance to be a different experience, so I just switch between them as I see fit. And I'm still looking for at least one more - something deliberately scholarly and sedate.
mander.xyz might be up your street
Just the one. I'd just constantly forget to switch if I had more than one, not worth the hassle.
On Reddit I had my regular one and an alt for commenting things that I wouldn't want tied back to me IRL. So far here is just this one. If I ever post much more identifying info on this one, I might make an alt.
Currently three, non used for porn just different instances.
Testing out various apps on iOS.
Two Lemmy accounts for my two main groups of interests. Neither NSFW, just different interests. Same two usernames on Mastodon too. Different instances so hopefully if one goes down the other is still ok, but also just because it's handy being on different instances when there are federation issues.
As far as managing them, I'm mostly on my laptop and always have two users running in my browser so they've both just got a pinned Lemmy tab and a pinned Mastodon tab now. On mobile, Liftoff (for Lemmy) and Tusky (for Mastodon) handle multiple accounts fine albeit with a few improvements needed here and there.
I copy paste my Lemmy sub list into a spreadsheet once a week as part of my general life end-of-week tidy up. Export Mastodon stuff every now and then too. Just in case!
Three. This one, one as admin of my instance (so I don't have to log in as admin all the time), and a bot account.
The bot only responds to DMs to add some fun new features. It's not online yet.
I have zero accounts for NSFW, because I am always at work.
2, this one and my obligatory one over at sdf.org cuz I am over there doing stuff all the time. I had two alts over in Reddit for specific topics but currently I don't see those topics over here so no alts currently.
I made 4 or 5 accounts on different instances. I settled on programming.dev, and only use this account.
Might be interesting to create an NSFW account too.
I have kbin too, since I found sync issues with kbin where posts wouldn't show up even days later.
I have 2 of the same account on a couple different instances in case one crashes. I pretty much just use this one though, lemmy.world seems relatively stable.
I see no need for extra accounts :)
3 but one is abandoned.
I got a Kbin account but there were a few too many bugs. So I found a Lemmy instance I quite liked and and left the Kbin account to rot. I also have a mastodon account because sometimes I like to have the scroll.
Two. I originally signed up on Beehaw, but I decided to switch after the defederation. Most of the communities I was subscribed to at the time were on World, and I hated losing access to them. Saw my current instance advertised on Mastodon and made the switch. My Beehaw account is still active, but I don’t check it very often since I can still interact with those communities through this account.
One. Signed up on lemmy.ca and don't see any reason to make another.
Two. I'm on the second right now because my main instance is timing out ATM.
Just this one for posting. I was messing around with the API and couldn't figure out how to log in, so I created another account at an instance populated by weirdos, and spammed that instead with my many wrong and malformed attempts.
3 technically, 2 in use, and just because I didn’t really understand federation at sign up. Now I mainly use my beehaw and my shitjustworks account.
Just 2 here but thinking of spinning up a personal instance shortly