Instances might come down, or you might be banned from lemmy.ml because you said communism is bad…

At one point I had three accounts but am now down to two. I had one at Kbin.social which was my primary and then I had one specifically for browsing lemmynsfw. When kbin.social started having issues I created my midwest.social account. Kbin.social died so I am now back to two. There is nothing wrong with having a few as a backup if your instance goes down or to see a slightly different feed. I think a lot of people have multiple

Well you might want a separate account for NSFW for example

If you want to look at things from a different angle, you could also consider signing up for Mbin (fedia.io, kbin.earth) or PieFed (piefed.social, feddit.online).

I guess it might make sense for some people, not for others. It does allow you to see things from a little bit of a different angle, especially in the all feed.

When I first got involved in this, I had a kbin and a lemmy account. I ended up focusing on the kbin, but it was useful to have the lemmy to see how things moderated. Kbin is dead now, but I still will occasionally use the lemmy to see how things look. I find it valuable. As an mbin person now, I think I should have some other instances in the mix as well. It’s a federation, and for me, I would like things to be appropriate for all of us. It’s kind of fun! Even if I am not a big user of other instances/federations?

Moderating across instances hasn’t worked well but will be fixed in next release.

In case your home instance goes down

Back in the day I had like five Reddit accounts. I still log into one of them sometimes (no it’s not my main one, that one turned into obscene invitations for u/spez to bugger himself with a hot poker, I’m not exaggerating).

It’s always a good idea to have more than one account in different servers in case one of them goes down, you get banned, etc. It’s also a good idea to be in servers running different software. A software may stop being developed altogether (that’s not Lemmy case, but has been known to happen) and been on servers running old software can be a security risk.

It would be great if nomadic identity were a possibility in ActivityPub, that will make things much easier, both in terms of posting and moving instances.

I have 2 accounts because I’ve been here long enough that when I joined servers were a bit unstable. It’s up to you honestly, I’m usually a 1 account person but I’ve met people who have like 10 accounts

The chances of you wanting to migrate over the life of the service is high, but if you already know where you want to migrate and have bothered to create an account you should just do it. Like I was forced to migrate from kbin and I haven’t migrated to db0 from world yet because I’m too lazy to make an account.

I mean if you don’t want others to get to it.

Or if say you want to participate on 2 seperate servers that don’t federate eachother.

But in general a small hobby lemmy instance, can join all the communities on the large general purpose one. Hence, you are talking from a server I’m not familiar with, and we’re talking in a discussion on the largest most general purpose instance.

Only reason I can think of is if you are really worried of people confusing you for say a [email protected], or something.

I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.

I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.