is it ok to use accounts in place of multi-r*ddits?
is it ok to use accounts in place of multi-r*ddits?
I miss multireddits, a workaround I found is to create accounts on different instances and subscribe to different communities with each account ie
News [email protected]
Memes and other bullshit [email protected]
"Math" [email protected]
Then just login to which ever one I'm looking to browse. I don't think this will screw with the fabric of the fediverse, is there any reason I shouldn't?
No, if you do that the police will federate to your house and arrest you
I knew it! You'll never take me alive, c/opper.
Please let this become my first Lemmy inside joke.
I can't see any reason why you wouldn't do that
Honestly sounds like a great productivity tool
"Alright it's time for the meme account"
30 minutes later
*Alright time to get stuff done, let's switch to the production account that's subbed to all the communities with tutorials for the program I'm about to work in."
I feel like you're using multiple accounts in a rather creative way, but at the end of the day it isn't too different from the "normal account, porn account" system that people already use.
So it's likely fine?
I had the same idea after i spent a bunch of time subbing a tons of communities on one account and then realizing actually i want to just look at regional news and politics sometimes and keep all the aww and meme type stuff separate.
This just sounds like too much work to me. I mean to each their own, so rock on if that’s what works for you. I just know I’d end up forgetting which account I was subbed into, and within the course of 1-2 months my communities would be a mashed up mess.
There is no problem doing that. It has no negative impact over fediverse, and the only down side is too manage multiple accounts. If you are ok with that, go ahead.
I know it is not the main topic of discussion but, there is a discussion on Github about multi communities for lemmy, if you have a GitHub account please upvote it, or you could add a bounty to it.
Why not just have one account and access communities across instances with federation?
Because sometimes I prefer to not have my feed full of LoTR memes, cats, boobs, no poop challenges etc. And some times I don't want the news breaking up my cats, boobs, no poop challenges etc. and I haven't found a better way to do that in Lemmy.
I don't think there's anything wrong in doing that, if you wanna keep things separated and there are currently no tools to do that with only one account then i think there's no reason to not go with the multi-accounting approach if you want too, as long as it isn't a spam level thing
Plus, some clients like liftoff even make that easier by supporting being logged on multiple accounts simultaneously and being able to easily shift between them
Jerboa and Connect do that with account switching too.
Lately I've been leaving different accounts in different apps to reduce confusion. Having the same user name on the different instances is a bit confusing with the account switcher.
I see, yeah that makes sense
This is exactly what I do. Works pretty well.
I do the same, although I change up ny username for each new account.