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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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You definitely shouldn't need to do that, one account is enough.
Maybe you're confused because communities can be on different instances (servers). But you don't need to make an account on those instances, because all the instances are federated together. That means you can just have your account on one instance and follow and participate in all your communities from there.
Unless they arbitrarily defederate. Which you wouldn't be aware of unless you're following specific communities, which you may or may not be able to follow without making separate accounts.
And like, I understand the intention. The fediverse is a good idea. But let's not pretend it's "easy". Average users are subject to the whims of admins as much or more than on Reddit, because here, admins can effectively hide /r/piracy, and you'll never have known it even existed. Understanding the mechanics that allow that process is more complicated than learning reddit. I'm not prepared to say it's worse, but it's different.
I'd say that's part of the reason I still go back to reddit. It's so easy to pull up any community and be signed in. With lemmy it's a hassle.
The instance I'm on (eg smaller ones) doesn't defederate. I see everything. lemmy.ml, beehaw, lemmynsfw. .world isn't a great instance to home account on. They've already blocked like 30 instances https://lemmy.world/instances