If you plan on moderating communities, it is useful to have an account on the same server as the community you are moderating.

If you plan on just browsing, posting, and commenting, you don't really need multiple accounts. Some people prefer to have a separate account for NSFW stuff, others don't.

A good use case is limiting who else can take your username. You realistically can't create an account on every single instance though. Instances come and go.

I made a couple. Lemmy.ca which i call home, Lemmy.world, for anything american, lemmy.nsfw for... stuff

sure i could do that all from a single instance, but why not diversify

Yes. Lemmy is a collection of little dictatorships that all share the contents of their domains.

If you piss off someone, you'll be permabanned much quicker than even the bad site. The good part of this is you can just pick another instance and ignore that.

You will find communities and even entire instances that fundamentally disagree with your existence, no matter how benign and agreeable you are. It's good to just set up a few accounts to continue enjoying your time even when a random rich piece of trash finds an issue with you.

Yes. You can continue browsing Lemmy even if lemmy.ca or even one of the big servers has an outage.

If you do make multiple accounts, note that you can also copy settings between them such as the subscribed and blocked lists

1. Go to your user settings
2. Export the data
3. Import it into the new account

Note that it will also copy over other settings unless you manually modify the file, so keep that in mind when importing

Alright, thanks for the help y'all. Guess i'll make 2 or 3.