I was wondering whether that could cause issues for the limited servers available, like when the mass migration from reddit happened. Would it be bad to add more accounts that would be mostly dormant? And if one does create a throwaway would it be better to delete the account afterwards.

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    1 year ago

    What type of behavior do you intend to engage in on your alt, and why wouldn’t you want that behavior associated with your main?

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t a throwaway account per se but I do have another account on lemmy.ml for interacting with other communities. This account (and this instance) is focused on free software and free culture advocacy. It’s not really about embarrassing behavior, but more about compartmentalizing interests.

      A valid use for a throwaway would be to ask a sensitive question that you don’t want to be traced back to any of your main identities. This would be a question that is asked once, answered once, and never revisited again. There would be no need for it to be associated with any of my identities.