Yeah, same here. I created one on lemmy.one... realized lemmy.world is open and has more traffic right now, so I created a new one here. I also have a kbin user for similar reasons. But still, the content flow does seem to be slowly increasing.

[–] house_of_questions 2 points 2 years ago

I have 2 accounts, lemmy and kbin.

There are probably many people with multiple accounts, for example due to reasons like UI-preferences. I prefer the lemmy.world one.

[–] MBM 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't imagine being that unlucky with your instances, maybe you're running into bugs or the less intuitive parts of Lemmy (like how links to posts and communities don't work how you'd expect them to)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It was mostly bugs/stability issues for me.

I created a lemmy account, but I've never actually been able to log into it. I even tried creating another account on lemmy, no dice.

Created a kbin account, but then found out that they were defederated temporarily due to the influx, and they had some really annoying cloudflare stuff on

Created a fedia account, but posts from other instances were delayed by like 6-8 hours, and fedia itself was (and still is) a relatively small instance.

Kbin has since refederated so it's working the best for me.

Couldn't figure out a good way to get mastadon to mesh with the ui of other instances so I created a mastadon account. Then I realized I'd gone down a rabbit hole of porn so my mastadon feed was taken over by nsfw stuff, so I made a new non-horny mastadon account.

That's seven. If beehaw ever defederates from kbin, I might make an eighth so I can participate there (unless fedia starts becoming better at updating).

[–] Master 3 points 2 years ago

3 of them were defederated by beehaw but I also have a beehaw account and then 2 others just in case... But I am sure I'm not the only one like this. So the total lemmy numbers are probably inflated... not that reddit numbers aren't also inflated.

[–] PixelatedSaturn 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Im a newbie, why do you have so many accounts? Isn't it bothersome to switch between them for whatever you are using them for?

[–] Master 1 points 2 years ago

To each their own I guess. It's not bothersome for me to switch accounts as I normally browse each lemmy locally to make sure I'm seeing as many of the comments as possible. I never really subscribed to the "subscribe/follow" feature of reddit. I liked my front page and all my niche communities separate so when I want to read about xxx I go to xxx subreddit and read all the top posts then move to my next subreddit. To many things fall through the cracks of the front page IMO. But to each their own, again. There is no reason to run lemmy like I do vs one account if it is working for you as is.