Question here from a new Lemmy user-

Is there any point to creating accounts across multiple Lemmy servers? For example if I wanted to claim the same username on a small hobby Lemmy but also a large general purpose one, does it make sense for me to create multiple accounts, or is that just a waste of time/resources?

  • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    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 Deranged_Kermit@lemmy.world, or something.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.