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Hi there -

I'm trying to dive into the fediverse and am debating kbin vs lemmy instances. My question is on how people approach dealing with with communities /magazines that share names, subject matter between the various instances.

For example - the "Fediverse" magazine in kbin.social is not the same as the "Fediverse" community in lemmy.world (they obviously have different namespaces) but the content is often similar and the subject matter is pretty much the same. (I imagine other implementations will have their own flavours too.)

As a user, how do you decide which is the optimal one to follow? Do you subscribe to each? Can you cross post between them? Could/would the magazines/communities eventually merge?

I get that everything is federated and things will congeal to have some being more dominant (or not) over time, but coming from a reddit world, it's definitely a bit more daunting. This is ok. Change is good - just looking at how people tend to approach this.

Do you have accounts at multiple servers? Do you pick one and subscribe from all over?

Interested in hearing how you tackle it.

Cheers!

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

At the moment I have a .world, .ml and .studio account. The .ml account is used to follow programming topics, .studio for music, .world for 'rest'. I'm working oj locally hosted instances, so I can dreate a user in my own domain.

When there are multiple magazines and communities about the same topic, I usually follow all, maybe weed some out later, depending on content. However, I pick the 'specialized' identity for studio/music and programming. (Although I use this identity most, maybe it'll become main)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, I was also comtemplating creating an instance (private) for just myself to centralize a single account and then picking and choosing from all over while maintaining my own 'home' that only I control.

I need to research it a bit further though. The idea has some appeal.

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

I'm looking into the option to have 1 [email protected] to use for mastodon, lemmy,... As I understood each protocol comes in on a different port, so it should at least be possible to receive all streams on the same address. No clue how to keep all users apart or combine login to a single instance/user administration.

Somehow I guess I need a [email protected], [email protected],... account to keep them apart. I could use different domains, as I now have 2 different 'identities' on mastodon and lemmy as well.

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

That's more or less what I'm thinning, though I'm not there yet. Still need to understand what persists on my server etc. Ideally I just want a portal/gateway to centralize connections to the outside world. This would let me control my own credentials and have a single login (notwithstanding additional protocols)

I'm not interested in persisting much data.

I worry it'll become a headache though. Already I'm finding compatibility issues in the fediverse - when I tried Jerboa, my first toe in the water here I realized it didn't work with lemmy.world because of minimum version level. Obviously it'll iron itself out in time, but it does highlight that running an instance is not absolutely set-and-forget.

Thanks for responding!