Is it okay to set up two accounts for two instances on the same web browser? When I go to visit the first instance, i can see that account is logged in for that instance. So, that works. Then I direct myself to the another instance’s community/post, I can see the 2nd account is logged in for that instance. Would it make sense for me to set up individual accounts for each instance, or should I stick with only one account?
I am not understanding this federverse I have been reading about as today is my first day. thank you
Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.
Could you paraphrase your title to be a question? It’s our first rule. Thank you :)
Done. Thanks for the heads up.
You don’t need it necessarily but noone is going to stop you, you can have one account for normal stuff and one for porn, just as a example.
And people saying its bad are idiots…
you can stick with your instance and view across the fediverse (mostly) fine!
Eh, many instances defederated many others.
if you ignore beehaw (which is a bit of an oddball case), most of the main instances are federated, aren’t they?
Most aren’t all…
You only need one account to navigate across the entire Lemmy instances, despite the server you choose. You can suscribe to communities searching in the glass button with pattern communityname@serverofthatcommunity.example
Real example Salsa community
You can suscribe to communities searching in the glass button with patron
What does this mean?
Upside in your lemmy instance there is a glass to search communities, you follow a pattern (I edited message to correct ‘patron’) serverthatyouwanttofollow@server.example
You can access all posts from (most) any instance. For example, you are currently posting to a lemmy.world community and I’m replying to you from lemmy.world, but you are browsing from sh.itjust.works. This is fine and how it is expected to work.
So, there isn’t much reason to have multiple accounts, but it also doesn’t hurt to have multiple.
Just to add to this if your instance(sh.itjust.works) want to block lemmy.ca cause the those Canadians are the worse then you won’t see their communities. You can sign in on lemmy.world where they have not block/defederate Lemmy.ca see the posts there.
Most of the time the instance will block/defederate other instances to protect their communities/members. Like if Lemmy.ca asked Lemmy.notCa to control their maple-deniers members that posts “Maple syrup is a hoax”, and Lemmy.notCa refused, the Lemmy.ca can defederate/block Lemmy.notCa.
There isn’t much reason in the future but right now with the massive delay in instances syncing with each other, it’s hard to say that
I will keep this in mind if one instance is down or delaying my user experience, I can always switch to another instance. Thank you for responding!
