I signed up for so many fediverse instances that are open for registration. Yes, so many. Maybe around 10 to 30 instances; I didn’t count. But I’m sure there are many. Am I the only one who does this? 🤣 How many fediverse instances have you signed up for?

  • Paid in cheese@lemmings.worldEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Five (seven counting instances that have gone down or will soon). I’ve got an account each on Glitch-Soc, Vanilla Mastodon, BookWyrm, Sharkey, and Lemmy (this one). I plan to add Friendica, GoToSocial, and Ibis to my flock of accounts. I may add a snac2 or Hollo if I decide to add some self-hosting to the mix. Not sure I’ll bother with PeerTube or Pixelfed.

    What can I say? I’ve become a bit of a nerd about ActivityPub and I want to try (almost) everything out. 😱

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Just this one. The dbzer0 instance is run in a manner I agree with (as democratic as possible, many choices determined by community vote), run by an admin I respect (former top mod of r/piracy, developer of a number of software projects that significantly improve quality of life on the fediverse by killing CSAM and offering community based trust and verification of instances), has been around long enough that I have no concerns about it suddenly disappearing with no notice, and generally doesn’t defederate from other instances unless they’re pedo or nazi related (so I don’t need to be on multiple instances to get at the fediverse content I want to see).

    Plus, at the end of the day, if the instance goes down, I’ll just create an account somewhere else. If I don’t remember one of the communities I was subscribed to then I can’t argue that it was all that important in the first place.

  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
    351·
    2 days ago

    i have one account per distinct service i use, lemmy - mastodon - pixelfed. Not sure why you’d need so many accounts? to protect your highly unique nickname?

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I was on beehaw originally, then I switched to lemmy.world because I wanted to see the whole threadiverse, not just the parts that beehaw deigned to federate with, and now lemm.ee because it seems least likely to impulsively defederate, ban, or otherwise get in the way of me browsing Lemmy. Also it has downvotes. But I only ever used one at a time.

    • kaerypheur@lemmy.worldOP
      32·
      2 days ago

      Also, I have concerns that if I sign up for only one instance, that instance may shut down one day and I could lose all my data.

      • kia@lemmy.caEnglish
        81·
        2 days ago

        But are you evenly distributing your data amongst all your accounts right now (as in commenting/posting from all of them)? Because if not, your data would be lost if your main instance goes down anyway. What’s the point of the other accounts?

    • kaerypheur@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      2 days ago

      I can see that some instances have different rules and different kinds of names. So far, I have found that lemmy.world is the most reliable and general instance I can participate in. I discovered another instance called monyet.cc; the name looks funny. “Monyet” in Malay means “monkey.” That’s why I am currently awaiting their review to see if I can participate in that instance.

  • vvilld@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Just the one right now. I haven’t really found a reason to sign up for more. I also really don’t want the added burden of maintaining multiple accounts. That sounds exhausting.

  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Only as many as I need for grouping my subscribed communities neatly. As there are no “multireddits” on Lemmy, your subscribed feed will be dominated by the popular communities, while all the small ones will be buried and forgotten. In order to solve that issue, I need a few accounts. If Lemmy grows, my need for accounts also grows. Maybe one day I’ll b have ten accounts.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    4·
    2 days ago

    I also signed up to quite a few on Mastodon, Kbin (mbin), MissKey, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Loops. I did that to experience the local community. Some of those instances either ended, or became so horrific I deleted my account. I really only use 4 of them regularly.