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Happy 12 million! (lemmy.world)

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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 35 points 3 weeks ago

Is that total accounts? Because I have like 7 accounts...

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

Honestly me too. It took a while to find an instance I liked plus I like having an account on another instance in case this one goes down or gets defederated.

[-] earth_walker@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it's total accounts, total monthly active users is more like a million

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Out of curiosity, why do you have 7 accounts?

[-] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://feddit.org/post/3143093

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 to maintain some pseudonymity.

[-] rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe to add to this, there may be folks like me who initially joined on things that became problematic or we wanted something "better" and are now on something different, leading to doubles. Not sure if my older accounts (like kbin) would show up but they might.

[-] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

I have a few of those. During the reddit exodus when the API changes went live, I had to register on a few servers to finally get a working and stable account. Issues with email or setting up captchas to prevent bots resulted in a few of my accounts not going live until a week+ later on some instances.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah okay, makes sense, thanks!

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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
Mbin
My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works

If a nodebb forum I have an account on decides to federate I might reach double digits.

Edit: I forgot I also have a Pixelfed account! So double digits already.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks 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 2 points 3 weeks ago

Some on different services, some with different subscriptions, some on different servers, etc.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks 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.