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Newbie, recently joined, 7/1/23.
Right now, I’m on three: Lemmy.world (my ‘main’ or ‘home’), kbin, and Blahaj Lemmy. I’m looking at Reddthat and sh.itjust.works as well.
Just curious. I know most of the content will overlap, but there are differences in philosophy/moderator style, etc.
Do you like having ONE instance?
I’m loving Alexandrite as the Dove dark chocolate enrobing my lemmy.world ice cream bar!
At first I had an account on kbin.social but I didn’t like not having an app so I moved to Lemmy.world. I also have mander.xyz as a backup, and szmer.info for local things.
Ten? Across Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Funkwhale and Bookwyrm. Some of them are just for bots/admin. I have one personal account I use on each service. They all have different names and avatars to cause confusion.
Speaking of different names for each account, I really like your name and instance combo!
Thank you!
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In terms of Lemmy, I’m just on Lemmy.world, I have no real reason to sign up for something else. I’m also on Mastodon, though.
Two, programming dev and kbin social
- Lemmy.one, for a broad normie experience. Kbin, idk I was trying it out but like lemmy better. Lemmygrad and hexbear.net because they’re not widely federated.
You only really need to sign up for one, you can subscribe to communities on any other instances.
I signed up on Sopuli.xyz and that’s it. I haven’t really had a need to sign up on another instance.
One for lemmy.world and one for dbzero in case world goes down
One. Isn’t that kind of the point?
I think having Lenny and a kbin account is reasonable. If one goes down you can use the other.
Fair enough. Personally I’d probably just lurk until my instance was back up, but I could see it being worth having a backup.
i have a couple of accounts that i keep synced in case one of my instances disappears.
I don’t see the point in having that many, but I just have the one from sh.itjust.works and quickly created my own.
I currently use lemmy.world and i also have a mastodon account from 2 years ago i never use
Three. lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, and lemmynsfw
lemmy.ml because I was a relatively early adopter in the reddit migration. sh.itjust.works because they’re the largest instance I’m aware of that defederates the fewest other instances. If there were a large instance that didn’t defederate anyone, I’d definitely join.
sh.itjust.works is what I consider my “main” account currently, but unfortunately beehaw has the largest gaming community, so I have to keep a lemmy.ml tab open for it too. I use lemmy.ml on the living room computer so there isn’t porn on the tv all day.
Either way, it’s handy to have accounts on at least two different instances for when your main instance is down.
2 right now, one on Lemmy.ml and one on my own instance. 3 if you want to count the server admin account. I’ve been thinking about adding more accounts on my server to segregate content so frontpage for each account could be somewhat focused while all would be a mess of everything.
Tbh I don’t really see much point to accounts on different instances. I might be missing something, but the only difference that I can see from a user’s perspective is what instances get federated/federated. You certainly don’t need an account to just browse instances for new communities to subscribe to on your instance.
