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People need to realize you can use alternatives

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I just want to be where the people are" πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Same... why would I use a smaller instance when the bigger one has more stuff on it? Maybe I just don't understand this instance thing properly, it all just feels so fragmented

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same… why would I use a smaller instance when the bigger one has more stuff on it? Maybe I just don’t understand this instance thing properly, it all just feels so fragmented

You don't NEED to be on the big instance in order to participate on the big instance.

That's the true beauty of what we're doing here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there ever a reason to have multiple accounts in the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

One instance might have separate rules than another, so you can use multiple to get around that. Also if one instance gets shutdown for whatever reason you'll need another instance to browse through.

Generally though, no. One instance is fine and helps keep the system from getting overloaded with users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe you want your porn on separate account, but beside that, don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's mainly a thing of controlling your own stuff if you're speaking of self hosted servers. If you mean just smaller instances in general, it's normally because you prefer their management/moderation. You can still view all of the stuff from the other instances just fine even if you're on a single user instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like so many other people here. The federation concept is completely new to them and over time people will settle down and get used to how it works. Maybe people will set up their own instances for the ultimate name swag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wdym name swag

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine an Instance as an email address. You can still access any content from any instance (mostly). All posts and comments just go through your instance for you to see them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can even see it looking at the usernames of people in different instances. For example, I see your username as @[email protected], which pretty much identically follows the format of an email address.