Just one? One on many instance? Multiple on one instance? Biggest reasons?

  • SavvyWolf ( savvywolf@pawb.social ) 
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    3 years ago

    I like to split my non-nsfw and sfw accounts, so I have two accounts each on Twitter, Bluesky, Lemmy and Mastodon.

    For Lemmy I had accounts on Beehaw and Sh.itjust.works before they fell out and I don’t think either handled it well.

    For Mastodon, I originally made an account on Mastodon.scot, but switched to furry.engineer because apparently meow.social blocks mastdon.scot for an unknown reason. I then reactivated it later when Mastodon.art decided to go on its crusade against trans people and furries, so now I kinda use both.

    • l_b_i ( l_b_i@yiffit.net ) OP
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      3 years ago

      When I created the account here, I decided to say “screw it” and use my one account for everything. I had the split accounts on reddit, still have both names, but my “clean” account is only used when yiffit is taking a break. I also don’t need that one anymore as I just created a backup on pawb.social.

  • Teon ( Teon@kbin.social ) 
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    3 years ago

    I have multiple accounts on Mastodon, kbin, Lemmy, Misskey and Pixelfed. I originally signed up to different communities to get a feel for what worked for me. I’m glad I did because one was sold (mastodon.cloud) to a shady spam company, and my favorite Mastodon instance that I settled on had an admin hissyfit and shut down because he didn’t own any big boy pants. And another instance suddenly became a csam farm and I deleted that crap real fast.

    I still visit a few local communities to see how they have developed, some better than others. Some are just people moaning about everything they can post about, just like twitter is. So annoying.

    I personally find that I have more fun on kbin and I use Mastodon for news and keeping up with hashtag follows. I really hope in the future that kbin gets more tools like Mastodon with following hashtags, bookmarks and a filtering system like they do. It’s really nice to be able to mute and block other people easily.

  • BOLOID ( BOLOID@pawb.social ) 
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    3 years ago

    One Lemmy and one Mastodon. I really like the fediverse promise of interoperability between instances, i hold it up to this promise, and i get annoyed when it fails.

      • BOLOID ( BOLOID@pawb.social ) 
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        3 years ago

        That’s true in most cases, but i’ve had a lot more success posting stuff to my furry-specific Mastodon instance than posting hte same thing to generic Twitter and Bluesky. So there’s something to the ability to have a specific audience.

        But i genuinely have an issue when i go to upvote or reply and it tells me that i’m not logged in, and that’s when i find out that i’ve accidentally left my instance and am not logged in anymore. That kind of thing shouldn’t happen at all, it shouldn’t be this easy to accidentally land in a different instance.

        • l_b_i ( l_b_i@yiffit.net ) OP
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          3 years ago

          That happens all the time with links, If you clicked on this link you’d wind up here again, but on yiffit instead of pawb. Similarly, if I’m browsing some instance and find something I want to comment on, its a bit of a task to find the post on my home instance to make a comment. There are a couple tools around, but it would be nice if there was something built in to take you back to the same spot in your home instance.

          The discovery bit is federation is not automatic. If nobody has visited something, you can’t even search to find it. You have to go find it elsewhere, go home and search for that specifically so it could be found again. And if nobody is subscribed, it won’t update. Its still very rough around the edges.

  • one. I don’t have a lot of time to mess around. If I have to move I will likely have two for a bit. I have not deleted my reddit as I decided to run the delete on a semi regular basis if that counts but I don’t actually use it.

    • l_b_i ( l_b_i@yiffit.net ) OP
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      3 years ago

      Overall there doesn’t seem to be a lot of activity outside of the really big communities. As for porn, other than the larger communities on lemmynsfw, not a whole lot of activity.

    • l_b_i ( l_b_i@yiffit.net ) OP
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      3 years ago

      careful with that in this post. So many of the replies here are from kbin accounts. In fact I’ve never seen so many. When initially making my account here, I did glance at kbin, but I just didn’t like how it presented itself.

    • l_b_i ( l_b_i@yiffit.net ) OP
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      3 years ago

      I only really have 1 I use, and 2 backups in case instances go down. It has always seemed pretty popular to have a separate porn account.