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347_is_p69 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

How many accounts do you have, and how do you manage them?

And how many of those accounts are for NSFW content?

For the sake of anonymity, people without separate accounts can pretend to be sock-puppets of those answering.

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  • Ummm, I'm not sure?

    Back on reddit, I had two main, my author account, and a novelty account. Wanted to keep things simple. One main for browsing, another for moderation. The author account for self promotion and such. The novelty account was for the joy of entering a simple little phrase whenever discworld would come up.

    Sadly, for some reason, my textpand doesn't work in lemmy apps, and I haven't typed out the formatting for it in ages. But it was a version of foul old ron and used one of his gibberish phrases along with the clacks overhead the sir Pterry

    But, I had tried lemmy out a bit last year or the year before, and had deleted those accounts. I have the two user names I used most on reddit registered at a couple pf instances, plus a handful of others for redundancy, my author account, and three accounts that are actually my cousin's, but he isn't using regularly that I'm subscribing to things I know he likes.

    I've kinda lost track tbh. I have them all in my bitwarden though, but I only keep one or two logged into any given app, so I don't have them all in one place without messing with BW

    But at least a dozen.

  • I have four due to instance shopping, but there's only one I use all the time and one I use as an alternate. Would be nice to be able to synchronize them.

    NSFW I don't care about, it's enabled. I only browse stuff by subscription where that stuff rarely comes up. Can't imagine the garbage I'd have to sift through setting my front page to "All".

  • 1 main account, 1 alt account. This is a use case where I fully appreciate the separation caused by federation; my alt account is on a separate instance and therefore is completely, wholly separate from my main.

  • Just the one. I'd just constantly forget to switch if I had more than one, not worth the hassle.

  • I have 3.

    First was Lemmy.World, because RIF suggested it with its final update message.

    Second was Yiffit because I need my furry femboy stuff and didn't find it on Lemmy.World and didn't know I could use the same account for it yet.

    3rd was sh.itjust.works as a backup for when the other 2 are down/slow.

    On Reddit I just had 2. My main one, and the one I used to get around a really stupid and hypocritical ban on /r/gaming. Perma banned for mentioning what PS .bin file version was needed for NA games on an emulator; not linked, didn't even tell them where to get it, just gave them a version number. In a thread about how to get PCSX to work. 🤦‍♂️

  • Coincidentally, I just now opened a second account after opening the first a week ago. I decided I wanted a different @username. I don’t know why I used my Reddit username the first time. I’ll delete that one soon — I only made two post comments with it.

    I do have a Mastodon, too.

  • I've got 2, largely out of curiosity for what defederation meant as far as user perspective.

    When exporting comes online I'll likely make an effort to spin up an instance if it's still feasible... So there will be a 3rd cake?On the positive side I don't think you're going to find many people wanting to sock puppet mild takes and noise rock.

  • I have 4, one in kbin, one in world, one in shit, and this one... :D

  • Two Lemmy accounts for my two main groups of interests. Neither NSFW, just different interests. Same two usernames on Mastodon too. Different instances so hopefully if one goes down the other is still ok, but also just because it's handy being on different instances when there are federation issues.

    As far as managing them, I'm mostly on my laptop and always have two users running in my browser so they've both just got a pinned Lemmy tab and a pinned Mastodon tab now. On mobile, Liftoff (for Lemmy) and Tusky (for Mastodon) handle multiple accounts fine albeit with a few improvements needed here and there.

    I copy paste my Lemmy sub list into a spreadsheet once a week as part of my general life end-of-week tidy up. Export Mastodon stuff every now and then too. Just in case!

  • 2, this one and my obligatory one over at sdf.org cuz I am over there doing stuff all the time. I had two alts over in Reddit for specific topics but currently I don't see those topics over here so no alts currently.

  • I have 2 of the same account on a couple different instances in case one crashes. I pretty much just use this one though, lemmy.world seems relatively stable.

  • 3 but one is abandoned.

    I got a Kbin account but there were a few too many bugs. So I found a Lemmy instance I quite liked and and left the Kbin account to rot. I also have a mastodon account because sometimes I like to have the scroll.

  • Two. I originally signed up on Beehaw, but I decided to switch after the defederation. Most of the communities I was subscribed to at the time were on World, and I hated losing access to them. Saw my current instance advertised on Mastodon and made the switch. My Beehaw account is still active, but I don’t check it very often since I can still interact with those communities through this account.

  • 3 technically, 2 in use, and just because I didn’t really understand federation at sign up. Now I mainly use my beehaw and my shitjustworks account.

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