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Something that I will call out is that I really appreciate the live changes in the thread on the website itself. Makes interacting with comments and everyone a lot easier.

That’s right, your credentials are unique to your instance.

I think you can just use whichever one you find most convenient, I would wager lemmy.ml would be your best bet as it’s the most active instance. The other accounts I think you could just keep as a backup in case the main lemmy.ml instance goes down.

It’s accessible from every instance that is Federated with the other. So for example if I’m on sh.itjust.works and there’s a Nintendo community on lemmy.ml, I would be able to access it just by searching !nintendo@lemmy.ml for example. The same goes for other communities on other instances, you would just replace lemmy.ml with the instance url.

And definitely taking a mental health break from social media is totally ok! I actually had to do a paper on the mental effects of social media in university so I totally understand where you’re coming from.

Yup! I personally don’t really care how many upvotes/downvotes/ratio I have, or karma or whatever. I just post based on my interests and ask questions/make posts that reflect what I want to know/am interested in.

This. Being able to move to a different instance if your main one is down and being able to host your own are very much pros to this.

Truly feels more like a PR stunt than anything…

Ever since Bing introduced their AI stuff I’ve been trialing it + Edge on my main computer. It’s not so bad but sometimes I do need to use Google to actually find what I’m looking for. Currently using Google on everything else though. The AI stuff is actually pretty good but I feel like if Google makes their implementation more widespread most people are just going to use that vs Bing.

Thanks for this!