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In my opinion, having multiple accounts in different apps and instances is better than trying to combine them into the smallest amount of accounts

Having accounts in different Mastodon instances, for example, allows you to see more of Mastodon, because not all servers federate with the other servers, and some servers will recommend you different accounts, or will only partially show you posts from accounts on other servers. It also allows you to test out each one of those instances, allowing you to have some time to think before deleting or migrating your accounts. Such an approach allows you to have a different experience on each instance or server, so that eventually you will have different servers for different kinds of content.

Oddbin ,

At the moment it does make keeping track of accounts, servers and feeds easier.i think long term though the Devs will crack it and then single stream browsing from all your accounts, servers and subscriptions will be the norm.

kplaceholder ,
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It takes a bit to get used to it IMO. Whenever I'm browsing another instance, it's a bit awkward having to copy the link of whatever post I want to share, then open my instance, then paste the link into the search bar, and finally actually press the share button. In addition to that, a few Mastodon instances are "private" and won't let you browse them unless you have an account in them, which feels off considering I technically already do have a Mastodon account lol.

I also found Lemmy to be incredibly janky so far whenever you're looking for content from other instances.

Really I think these things will be eventually sorted out as the Fediverse matures, but part of that maturing process will probably be having a way of uniting accounts on multiple instances or maybe even multiple platforms. After all, as long as this is just an option, people who don't like it will still be able to have separate accounts on separate instances.

kukkurovaca ,
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It's just so many websites to log into. I would really to see a fediverse app that unified timelines from multiple accounts.

illi ,
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Not sure if I understood things correctly as I only use one, but Liftoff seems to have this functionality. I didn't care enough to test, but maybe you can try

AbouBenAdhem ,

Federation is user-driven, not admin-driven: if you subscribe to content on a new instance, that instance will become federated with yours by default.

Defederation is admin-driven, but if done right it’s an added value: if you agree with the admins’ policies, they’re filtering out content you wouldn’t want to see anyway. So it should suffice to make one account on an instance whose policies you agree with—or barring that, an instance that never defederates from anyone.

And for maximum control, you can always start your own instance that just hosts your own account.

RxBrad ,

To each their own, but strong disagree from me. I'm just going to see 95% of the same stuff on each account.

I never did keep alt accounts on any social media platform. And if something is defederarated, then it probably wasn't worth my time anyways.

Tar_alcaran ,

As long as I get to cram all those accounts into a single portal or app, that's fine by me. I dislike having to look at multiple places to get slightly different variants of the same content.

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