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Is creating a throwaway on lemmy bad? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I was wondering whether that could cause issues for the limited servers available, like when the mass migration from reddit happened.

I know one account sounds like nothing but as a general practice 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 or leave it be?

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

To add to what others have said, the real source of load is browsing. It's much better than a few months ago, but it is still the case that users actively on the web frontend is the biggest load.

If you are actively using a single digit number of accounts simultaneously, no issue. A bot farm using 100,000 users simultaneously is a big problem.