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!

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, especially having different subscriptions for each account.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm only on one lemmy but I did sign on both lemmy and kbin before realizing they were connected.

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here :) I consider it reserving my username for now.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 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

[–] Grant@lemmy.world 1 points 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!

[–] padjakkels@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I did....lol

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I 100% did this in Mastodon when I first signed up.

[–] Hangglide@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sanjosanjo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can outsiders comment in beehaw posts?

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I understand yes they can.

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

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 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.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed up to 3 lemmy instances but I settled for kbin now, should I delete the other accounts?

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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