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Half formed thought ... however. I am more than just my job (or hobby, or location) - say I am a worker and have my @work, and I am deep into digital art so I
by blitzar 4y ago
Half formed thought ... however.
I am more than just my job (or hobby, or location) - say I am a worker and have my @work, and I am deep into digital art so I am also on @mastodon.art.
I should really only talk with my work hat on @work and my art hat on @mastodon.art - should these be able to be optionally linked. Should the follwers of me @work also see my @hobby etc without having to follow me all over the federated universe?
Movie star X on twitter will promote their new movie, talk about their kids, pump and dump crypto, slag off a politician, rip the latest death etc. All one the same 'instance' or server.
- blowski 4y agoMaybe both? With a meta account that aggregates from all your other accounts. If the BBC are giving you a megaphone, it's useful that they can take away that megaphone when you leave. You can always choose to speak without the megaphone.
- blitzar 4y agoThe "email" version - your work email is for work and personal for personal. The @x part certainly confers an authority and verification of sorts. But when it comes to social networks, part of the idea at least seems to be broadcasting and merging of identities. Back in the day / still barely in existence - keybase cross verified your identity on multiple platforms, and I suspect that in a federated world this function becomes more important and probably needs to exist even more than before.
- blowski 4y agoThat's part of the idea of adware social networks that want to track everything about you as an individual. It's not an intrinsic requirement of all social networks.