this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I don't believe most Lemmy users will tolerate maintaining more than one account on once instance. If I can't see it from my account, then it doesn't exist. This is all starting to sound like old school phpbb forum with new paint.
You don't need more than one account. You just decide which instance you want an account on, then subscribe to all the topics you care about across multiple instances. I just think that generalist instances with thousands of local topics are unnecessary.
Why would you create a new account to browse the startrek dedicated instance instead of subscribing to the community that lives on their instance?
You create an account there probably because you are a star trek fan and want to show it off
Hell, they could've disabled account registration and just hosted the communities. Lemmy allows for that kind of flexibility
Yeah, I just meant the other user seemed to think you had to create an account for every federated instance you wanted to interact with.
Also, this might just be personal experience, but so far I'm finding it far easier to browse a single community on no matter what general instance rather than going through a separate topic-focused instance.
The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.