• Moonguide@lemmy.ml
    161·
    1 year ago

    One in Lemmy.world. Made it when lemmy.ml was suffering from outages, and returned to lemmy.ml when lemmy.world got pissy about piracy. By then, lemmy.ml was good to go.

    That lemmy.world account just collects dust nowadays.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That lemmy.world account just collects dust nowadays.

      The piracy thingy gave the same ending to mine in favor of lemm.ee, the good thing about the Fediverse is that if any other aggregator site, like Reddit did the crappy/un announced move like that we would get rekt… Meanwhile thanks to the Fediverse we could react and stay here without losing it all… That seems like the fucking future if you ask me.

  • paprika@infosec.pub
    8·
    1 year ago

    I don’t have any alts in the usual sense, but I do the same thing I used to do on reddit which is switch to a new account every couple months. I just don’t like having all my opinions on everything in one spot long term. The nice thing here is that you don’t have to jump through hoops with a new account like you did on reddit (karma requirements, age requirements on some subs, etc).

  • argo_yamato@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 year ago

    I made three different accounts but I really didn’t know what instance to use at first. Now I have landed at the only one I use.

      • argo_yamato@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Not a whole lot. One I used had no down votes and another kept going down. So I just stuck with lemm.ee but alot of the communities I use are on other instances. That is what I didn’t get at first, that you could subscribe to any community on different instances unless they got defederated from your instance.

  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
    7·
    1 year ago

    Just 2, one admin account and one “undercover” account. If lemmy could add support for hiding admin/mod tags when we aren’t making “official” announcements that would be great. Unfortunately the devs seem to dislike the feature, so alt account it is.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t mind the admin tag. Only users on my own instance can see it and I like being accessible to them. I think I’ve brought out the “mod” voice about twice, ever.

      Edit: oh to answer OP’s question, I have a couple of alts - all the same username and used to test different apps or federation. I don’t know if there are any instances blocking aussie.zone, but I’d use them to check if a user makes a query. I only comment/post with this account.

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I have 3, the original one I signed up with after the Reddexodus at the community I identified most with at the start, one with the same name on a community I prefer more now, but keep the old one as a backup. And a final one for porn.

  • Rottcodd@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    None or about a dozen, depending on how you want to look at it.

    I have about a dozen accounts on various instances, and four or five that I use regularly, but they’re not really “alts” since they’re all the same name - Rottcodd. Unless someone checked the @s and compared them, they likely wouldn’t even realize they’re not all the same account.

    I started out doing it that way because when I first moved here, I just signed up for whatever instances looked appealing for whatever reason, just to try them out, and figured I’d settle on one later. I kept doing it that way because I discovered some advantages.

    Each instance actually feels a bit different, since they have different moderation policies, different sets of federated vs. defederated instances, and different sets of communities that members have subscribed to, so different Alls. And I’ve emphasized that by having different subscribed and blocked lists on different instances.

    So if I want to wade through chaos and maybe do some shitposting, I have an account for that. If I want to read or post about gaming or technology or popular media, I have an account for that. If I want to read or post about the arts, literature, society, philosophy and the like, I have an account for that. And if I just want to see comfy, pleasant stuff like cat pictures and recipes, I have an account for that.

  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve got four accounts, and I use them all for basically the same thing, although I try to post more to native instances with each account

    • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      What’s the benefit of that? I thought the point of the Federated nature of it all was so it all links together no matter what your local instance is.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
        5·
        1 year ago

        The benefit is I don’t have all my content in one instance. Also there are a few communities I like that might not be federated with a specific instance, but are on another. There’s been some talk about beehaw leaving the fediverse, and if it does I’ll follow, but I’ll probably check this account from time to time.

        To me, the benefit of the fediverse is no advertising and no monetization or artificial promoting of posts.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    67. vote manipulation

    Just 1 so far. In the future I might make an alt on another instance as a backup or something, but so far it doesn’t seem necessary. My current instance has a ridiculous amount of donations and a good sysadmin so I’m not worried about it disappearing at the moment.