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I don't want the streams to cross. I don't want to get my politics into my LEGO. But I also don't want to track multiple accounts.

Justsignedup 4y ago
exactly!!!! i want to be able to go to a geopolitical mastodon and enjoy posting/reading there, and ignore the rest of the federation, but sometimes I want to see all like reddit's /r/all or the front page.
Gigachad 4y ago
Yeah I'd rather a client that can transparently create new accounts for each community. You can't interact honestly or freely on places like reddit because nut cases will read every one of your comments to piece together enough info to dox you. You have to be hyper vigilant and post enough fake or in accurate info to throw them off but it's just not as good as a private community you can trust.
- Karrot_Kream 4y ago
  That's just because Reddit lets people see where someone posts. On Matrix and Discord, you can use the same identity to join two different rooms, and only people that are in the same two rooms will know that you're there. It's always cute serendipity when I join a different Matrix room or Discord guild and find someone I know from one of the others. Quite charming. Reddit's public-timeline-by-default is what encourages the crazy stalking and cross-sub banning behavior, but its norms come from a time when Reddit and the web was a lot smaller.
madrox 4y ago
This is arguably a client issue and not a federation issue. In the days of instant messaging we had no problem managing our AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc all in Trillian. We manage lots of accounts all the time anyway. The alternative is we revive OpenID, but good luck with that
- jeromegv 4y ago
  Popularity of clients like a trillan do not even reach 1% of what social media is today. It worked back then mostly because the internet was more often composed of techies with sufficient tech knowledge.

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I don't want the streams to cross. I don't want to get my politics into my LEGO. But I also don't want to track multiple accounts.

by smeagull 4y ago

Justsignedup 4y ago
exactly!!!! i want to be able to go to a geopolitical mastodon and enjoy posting/reading there, and ignore the rest of the federation, but sometimes I want to see all like reddit's /r/all or the front page.
Gigachad 4y ago
Yeah I'd rather a client that can transparently create new accounts for each community. You can't interact honestly or freely on places like reddit because nut cases will read every one of your comments to piece together enough info to dox you. You have to be hyper vigilant and post enough fake or in accurate info to throw them off but it's just not as good as a private community you can trust.
- Karrot_Kream 4y ago
  That's just because Reddit lets people see where someone posts. On Matrix and Discord, you can use the same identity to join two different rooms, and only people that are in the same two rooms will know that you're there. It's always cute serendipity when I join a different Matrix room or Discord guild and find someone I know from one of the others. Quite charming. Reddit's public-timeline-by-default is what encourages the crazy stalking and cross-sub banning behavior, but its norms come from a time when Reddit and the web was a lot smaller.
madrox 4y ago
This is arguably a client issue and not a federation issue. In the days of instant messaging we had no problem managing our AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc all in Trillian. We manage lots of accounts all the time anyway. The alternative is we revive OpenID, but good luck with that
- jeromegv 4y ago
  Popularity of clients like a trillan do not even reach 1% of what social media is today. It worked back then mostly because the internet was more often composed of techies with sufficient tech knowledge.