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askchapo @hexbear.net MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian [he/him] @hexbear.net 7 mo. ago

Is it Ok to make an alt account or no

Just this ,I am asking cause I feel like I wanna keep an alt account just in case ,but I’m not sure if it’s allowed

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When the site was originally founded, it was explicitly recommended by the mods to periodically ditch and cycle accounts in order to prevent anyone on the site from being targeted, tracked, and harassed.

I never really took that advice, because I am lazy and overconfident. But unless there was a stark reversal that I missed, I assume its cool and even encouraged.
- Great
more accounts are better, for opsec.

personally i dropped my alt and returned to my main because i was embarrassed by a post that people didn't like
- Lmao that’s a funny story
- sometimes the bit that is a banger in your head just doesn't land with the people and you gotta do what you have to to carry on
- personally i dropped my alt and returned to my main because i was embarrassed by a post that people didn't like
  
  Anyone on here who claims they've never moved accounts due to a cringe post is a fucking liar
  
  I own all my cringe posts
The rule is all alts must end in _Owl
- cries in Gorb-owl-chev
- brb making FullCapacityB_Owl
  
  B_Owl_Movements
Make as many accounts as you'd like.
- Really ?
  
  Absolutely. It's not a big deal.
  
  sysops will be aware (if they care, and unless you take measures to prevent correlation)
  
  alts would only be an issue if one is ban evading
We've had a running gag for years that "everyone here is my alt".
- Thanks for telling me
It should be fine as long as you're not using the account for ban evasion.
- This is my alt that I use for ban evasion
  
  Pro tip: post tens of thousands of times from your alt account to trick the mods into thinking it's your main
- Even then, it's pretty much fine as long as you don't explicitly say "I'm using this account for ban evasion" even if it's blatantly obviously for ban evasion
- The only other scenario where it's sketchy is when there's a site-wide vote, like when we voted over defederating this or that instance, it'd be shitty to use all your alts to vote.
- I use alts for ban evasion. What are they gonna do, ban me?
  
  They might
  
  Source: have been banned for ban evasion
- I’m not
if you use an account for longer than 1 comment, you've basically already doxed yourself.
- I already have long ago to less trustable CraKKKers 🤣
  
  not trusting crackers
  
  not this again
- wait really? i have been posting here for 8 months. should i have alts?
  
  If it makes you feel any better I'm at Langley monitoring leftists and I haven't given your details to my handlers yet. Maybe step up your posting game.
...we aren't all alts of the same 5 users?
- Look at my username ,I’m new here
I have about 500 alts. I managed to make them so they're all the same username, luckily.
yeah i've lost track at how many alts i've made at this point
- Amazing
It is, 3/4 of the accounts ever created for this site are dead alts haha
i have like 7, 2 of which I use actively
Yes. I love your profile drawing. Is it orignial?

Also I purchased a bunch of Medjool dates from Palestine. My Indonesian husband says they are the best dates he had breaking fast the other night. Best dates I had as well. So fresh, soft, and carmel sweet. Ramadan Mubarak Mohammed.

Aparently they came from PARC which the Empire claims is the "agricultural arm" of the . I will be sure to buy more!

Is there an organization you can think of or brand that isn't compromised by the occupation - if you are allowed to say - that could help you all the most?
- No it’s from Monster (Manga) by Naoki Urasawa
  
  Genuinely don’t know tbh otherwise I would say so
  
  Also Ramadan Mubarak to you as well
  
  Today is Layla Al Quadr Allegedly
you should ideally be getting banned for sectarianism and creating a new account to evade said ban daily. I don't make the rules but many top mods and site admins have privately expressed to me that they prefer it this way....
- The BMF method
  
  There hasn't been a BMF poster in a while, did they finally die?
  
  I know their Reddit is still active they still post to TrueAnon.
Really the only rule around it is if you are using alt accounts for ban evasion. If you are using an alt account after your main or w/e gets banned, that account will probably get smacked down too. Unless you are some kind of folk hero account / bit account you might get a little leeway.
- No I’m a new user
  
  I saw from another comment
  
  I just wanted to inform you when it would be a problem to use alternate accounts. You should be fine in all other situations.
no more half measures walter
yes. who gaf, kill the redditor in your head

Death to America
Yeah, I have like 3 or 4 abandoned ones at this point
You will never know if you don’t try!
This account of mine is an alt-turned-main since my first primary account was on lemmy.ml but I spent all my time here anyway. But I like this username better so I stuck with this account instead.

I think just yesterday made a backup alt on Lemmygrad with the same name as this account, just in case. I even told them it was just a backup of the same name. No issue.
Always okay.

What you might do with it might not be okay.

But having alts is perfectly okay.
I have like seven bazillion, it's fine,

I just do it because I come up with different username bits I think are funnier than my current one. My opsecs shit so like everyone who spends too much time on this site can probably track between my different accounts but it's enough for me that weird federated stalkers can't work out which else are mine
I have like 8 accounts
no
- lol guide the only one saying that
No

posted from my alt
only if you're @ziq@hexbear.net
I have like 8 accounts
Why not? Don't think there's a rule forbidding it heavily (only for ban evasion, from what other users said)
How would we know if you did?
Yea I'm on my fifth account I think
There are only two users on this site: you and me, and everyone else is an alt.

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