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I lurked from 2007 to 2009, finally created an account in 2009, and used just that one through maybe the first 5 years or so. In 2014 I started creating alts and deleting old accounts just to be able to cycle through some kind of anonymity to prevent cross referencing comments on one topic with my real identity on another. By 2019 I got pretty aggressive about anonymity and increased the number of alts and throwaways I used (and then used throwaway emails to "verify" with reddit, because I stopped trusting them with the backend data that could be used to correlate alts).
I deleted most of my alts, but kept two, for specific niche interests: the one I used to comment on the nuts and bolts of the legal profession, mostly in private subreddits that weren't crawled by search engines (or AI training), and one that participates in my city's subreddit about local issues.
At this point, I think the technology discussions on lemmy/kbin are already at or above the quality of reddit. There's still a ways to go with other general topics of discussion, but I think we'll get there on the big ones. I don't know if the niche topics will really take off, so for now I keep my reddit accounts that correspond to those.