How many alts do you have in the Lemmyverse and what do you use them for? - eviltoast
  • Moonguide@lemmy.ml
    71·
    1 year ago

    One in Lemmy.world. Made it when lemmy.ml was suffering from outages, and returned to lemmy.ml when lemmy.world got pissy about piracy. By then, lemmy.ml was good to go.

    That lemmy.world account just collects dust nowadays.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That lemmy.world account just collects dust nowadays.

      The piracy thingy gave the same ending to mine in favor of lemm.ee, the good thing about the Fediverse is that if any other aggregator site, like Reddit did the crappy/un announced move like that we would get rekt… Meanwhile thanks to the Fediverse we could react and stay here without losing it all… That seems like the fucking future if you ask me.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    67. vote manipulation

    Just 1 so far. In the future I might make an alt on another instance as a backup or something, but so far it doesn’t seem necessary. My current instance has a ridiculous amount of donations and a good sysadmin so I’m not worried about it disappearing at the moment.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    My alts are always on my same name. It helps me not have to remember, but it helps me to compartmentalize.

    I have one over on lemmy.world that I made when RiF went down and it pointed to that instance. ‘Reddit is Fun’ was my trusted app of choice for so long that I figured that I’d go with their recommendation.

    That mindset was apparently shared with a lot of people, and lemmy.world became overcrowded and unusable every other day for a while due to traffic. That’s when I read that one should get registered at a closer and/or smaller instance in order to have better service.

    That’s when I moved over to SDF’s shockingly fast lemmy instance.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      For what it’s worth, lemmy.world has been exceptionally stable for a while now.

      I probably just jinxed it, though.

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have 3, the original one I signed up with after the Reddexodus at the community I identified most with at the start, one with the same name on a community I prefer more now, but keep the old one as a backup. And a final one for porn.

  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    Just 2, one admin account and one “undercover” account. If lemmy could add support for hiding admin/mod tags when we aren’t making “official” announcements that would be great. Unfortunately the devs seem to dislike the feature, so alt account it is.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t mind the admin tag. Only users on my own instance can see it and I like being accessible to them. I think I’ve brought out the “mod” voice about twice, ever.

      Edit: oh to answer OP’s question, I have a couple of alts - all the same username and used to test different apps or federation. I don’t know if there are any instances blocking aussie.zone, but I’d use them to check if a user makes a query. I only comment/post with this account.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is my main account, I’ve got a backup on Kbin in case my main instance is down. And I’ve got another on Beehaw because they don’t federate with sh.itjust.works.
    They’re all called Thelsim though, so I guess they’re not really alts?

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    4 total. This is my main. I also have one on lemmy.world for moderating a few communities on that instance, one on kbin that I don’t use, and one for occasional shitposting.