• Omgarm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn’t needed.

        • ToastyWaffle@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          To me it’s just another security layer. If one instance goes down, or an account gets hacked/banned etc I can just swap over to another one. Also I have different sets of subscriptions for each account, so if I’m looking for a different flavor of my feed I just swap to the associated account.

          Empower the user!

        • Grant@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I saw that one of the largest Lemmy’s hadn’t had 3 names taken that are high value (to me at least) so I snatched up the three I use often or really wanted. I’ve always dreamed of being one of the like Phil@gmail.com and now I am!

        • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It could come in handy not only as username reserve, just found out you can follow mastodon users from kbin (you can’t in lemmy), maybe it’s well know already but for me everything is still a discovery :D

    • Hangglide@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m still not sure what an instance is but I’ll sign up to some more of them if I can get more content.

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        1 year ago

        No that’s literally what you don’t need to do. You only need one account, your instance will talk to other instances to bring you content from the whole network, to your one account. That includes the ability to comment on it, and interact with, etc.

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        1 year ago

        nope you wont. If you signed up at an instance that hasnt defederated like beehaw then you will be able to see almost anything.

        • Omgarm@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Yep, users registered @beehaw can’t see everything, but everybody else can see beehaw posts.

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              1 year ago

              As far as I understand yes they can.

              If I’m wrong about this somebody will surely correct me.

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                1 year ago

                They can normally if their instance is not defederatd.

                But if beehaw defederate some instance, only the one from their own instance can see and interact with their post.

                So for example, I have an account in lemmy.world and posting it to beehaw tech community. Other user from lemmy.world can see my post and reply normally. But other user from other instances (including beehaw itself) can’t even see the post.

                Basically like shadowban in reddit but for all users in an instance

      • Omgarm@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I doubt this matters much. The posts/comments probably tax the database more than just the userdata.