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Technically maybe. But sockpuppeting isn't bad per se. Lots of people (me included) do it. And it's accepted in the Fediverse and other parts of the internet. Just don't do brigading, other silly stuff and don't upvote all your own comments and you're fine.
Do... what?
Sock puppeting is when you have an account that you pretend is an independent user unaffiliated with you, and you interact with your own posts or get around restrictions with that account. It's called sock puppeting because you're in control of the puppet, but you make it seem independent.
If you personally are banned from a service and use another account to get on, that might be considered a sock puppet, but only if you're interacting with the same people / communities you were banned from talking to.
If you just have multiple accounts that you use for different things, that's not sock puppeting, that's just having multiple accounts for different uses.
It used to be normal and accepted to have different account for different things on the internet.
Let's take a very mundane example you're taking singing class, great but at the moment you're quite bad. However, you want to exchange with other beginners and student from your music school. Do you want your sport club buddies to know about it ? An we just talk about trying to sing a scale on pitch.
There is tons of more "private topic" that you don't want evenyone to know about even though you want to talk about on the internet.
Despite what meta or tik tok think, separating account is great as it let you share stuff with a sub group of person.(also no doubt that big influencers, public figure and more have a hidden account)
It's still not that uncommon, especially on the fedi or reddit to split accounts or use throw away account for more private questions.
It's how the social web is supposed to work, so not a big deal if you do it un good faith
As long as you do not use multiple accounts to gain an advantage in an argument I think it's fine