Out of curiosity, why do you have 7 accounts?
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Is that total accounts? Because I have like 7 accounts…
Weslee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
- Multi-community simulator
- Defederation avoidance, usually paired with accounts on special interest servers you don’t want to risk losing access to.
- Porn and non-porn.
- Privacy by dividing online activities between multiple accounts to make it difficult to profile you and maintain some pseudonymity.
Weslee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ah okay, makes sense, thanks!
cabbage@piefed.social 3 months ago
In my case, somewhat chronological order:
- First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
- Funkwhale
- Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
- BookWyrm
- Kbin (dead now)
- New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
- Piefed
- My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
It’s not too hard. There are a bunch of different platforms one might experiment with as well as instances. Some will use multiple accounts for different needs or interests. On lemmy, multi accounts are useful for have different feeds, for example. I probably have 7-10. I’ve probably forgotten about a few of them. If you’re curious, it happens.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Some on different services, some with different subscriptions, some on different servers, etc.
PanArab@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I wish I didn’t have to, but federation for technical or political doesn’t work so well so I need an account for Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, and other less popular apps like Akkoma. Though 90% of my activity is on Lemmy.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why 7?
earth_walker@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah it’s total accounts, total monthly active users is more like a million