I don't want to double vote by accident

A-Am I supposed to use alt accounts on here? I've been telling people I'm a virgin who lives in parent's basement at 30 y/o.

Woah you might my MY alt!
I only do it to try out different software (lemmy/piefed/mbin) and to get around bugs with being a mod of a community on a different instance.
That's fine - so long as you are also a wealthy married man in your 50s and a jobless widowed woman in her 40s :-P.

Gasp! You ARE Beaver!! ;-)

Well this makes me feel a little better about the extreme difficulty I've had creating new accounts on Lemmy. After all my attempts, this is the only account I have. Last time I tried circa November 2023, instances are stubborn to let anyone(?) in. Or is it just me 😢 I just want to establish a different username, my current username I pulled from my arse whilst panicking trying to escape reddit, but I'd prefer a different username that reflects my personality & I've put more thought into.

Am I a big old piece of shit if I do?

I mean... you can get banned from those communities or even your instances involved for "voting manipulation" practices, so even if we might hope that one or two such cases would not trigger such a result, it is best to not do it.
Plus some actual big old pieces of shit humans actually do it on purpose... thereby attempting to exert undue (and unfair!) influence on the Threadiverse.
I know they are just fake Internet points, but some people get really worked up about this stuff... so personally speaking I avoid doing so like the plague. If it helps, think of it like stealing IRL - once or twice in your life you might walk out of a store after forgetting to pay for something, and it's too far to go back and pay for it later, but generally speaking nowhere close to a good or even neutral matter, as separately from what you think about it there's also the thoughts of the recipient to consider as well.
- So, I agree and appreciate what you're saying. I was being a little facetious as well, if it wasn't obvious.
  My opinion on the matter is that I don't really think it's noteworthy, so long as one isn't doing it intentionally. I am definitely aware that I do a multi-vote sometimes when I am using my alternate account(s), but my intent is not malicious. I just don't remember exactly if I voted on it already or not, and my mind puts it into some kind of morally ambiguous area.

What are the consequences for double-voting on most communities? I'm assuming intent doesn't affect the outcomes either?

You could get permanently banned from well known instances.
It is against the Terms of Service of your instance, so you could in theory be banned outright.

I'm getting deja vu here.

Hot Take: If you think for yourself and don't use the sorting methods that go by them, the votes don't even matter.

conscientiousness ain't easy

I haven't found any apps that handle Piefed on android, so I use piefed in browser and lemmy on mobile. The struggle to not double vote is real.

There are several though? Voyager, Interstellar, and I reportedly the next update of Thunder (the last one was June 26, 2025) will offer it. This is not a complete list, just what I recalled off the top of my head, but there should definitely be more than these.
- Ah you caught me. I use Thunder on mobile and have just been waiting for the Piefed support.
- @Albbi@lemmy.ca
  There’s also Blurb, Summit, Mlem and Interstellar.

A double vote means its appeal held up past one view.

Too much brain power. Don’t worry about it.