Which instance would get more users and hold more power, @mastodon.com or @mylittlepony4ever.net? Which instance would you want to hold your entire online persona? @mozilla.com or @stopclimatechange.org?
very few people have silly email addresses because they realize sending their CV or writing to a friend or collegue with fuckjoebiden@racism.ftw is insane. but somehow when creating their main online account on mastodon they sign up to the silliest instances and bind their own identity to these niche communities
Are you limited to one instance or persona? Feels like an assumption based on twitter style advertising requirements where they don't want multiple sign ups as it maks it harder to track you.
No, you are not. I have one persona that moved over from twitter, one for ttrpgs.
I think, we need to go back to the basics with people. You are allowed to have more than one email, for example. Facebook brainwashed people into believing they can only be one thing online.
Slight tangent though; but i'm starting to believe we're going back to only being a single thing online. I used to rotate accounts frequently for privacy sake. These days it's becoming shockingly easy to link accounts.. ML is only going to make it easier.
I prefer many anonymous accounts.. but i think those days are moving further and further behind us.
Twitter makes it very easy to manage multiple accounts. You can be logged in with several accounts at once, and easily switch between them in the twitter UI.
Isn't the same true on Mastodon? In fact, it's even easier since they're separate websites, so you can be actively logged into multiple at once. My mastodon.social and porn.social (not sure the latter actually exists) sessions remain as seamlessly separate as my hackernews and reddit logins.
That's visually separate, but how easily would your identity be traceable by prying users or admins? Who would be able to see your IP and link your political/hobbyist persona to your porn account?
Pinafore (web FE) allows you to be logged into multiple instances with an easy switch between them.
Soapbox (web FE, also Pulpit, Mangane since they are forks) handles multiple ogged in accounts on the same instance (which is handy if e.g. you've got an admin/mod role account or you've got a lot of bots on there.)
Pretty sure this will be a common feature in frontends that get popular in 2023.
I think this is possible on the Mastodon app. There's an option to login to multiple accounts but I haven't try it yet since I only have a single account.
You're not limited, but most people just want to have at least one profile which has their name and photo where they can have a presence online linked to their real life persona.
By having so few generalist instances the risk is that they grow too large and gain too much power over the fediverse.
>most people just want to have at least one profile which has their name and photo where they can have a presence online linked to their real life persona.
I am so absurdly out of touch with "most people"...
>very few people have silly email addresses because they realize sending their CV
Back when I was a teenager, I was told not to create accounts under my own name. I have many silly E-mail accounts.
E-mail can be a professional medium. You don't apply via Twitter DM, I hope.
>bind their own identity to these niche communities
I was hiring recently, and one of the ways we advertised the position was that I tweeted the job description, and I arranged with the our social media team for them to retweet it for additional visibility. Candidates responding to that tweet generally contacted me via twitter DM - why wouldn't they?
It's not like I conducted interviews in that medium, but it's not really any different than the people who initiated contact via email.
Why would your teenager years be relevant here? Nowadays companies are online and jobs are online. There are an infinite amount of reasons why you would want to link your online identity to your personal one. You're not forced to and you should still be able to make anonymous and silly accounts, but this is not the point.
>You don't apply via Twitter DM, I hope.
If a company has a Twitter, why wouldn't I? Many young businesses less revering of e-mail gladly use Twitter as a valid avenue for these kinds of communications.
>just migrate
Mastodon handles migration terribly. You can either redirect or straight up move. In both cases your old profile is still in full display and your posts don't transfer.
>If a company has a Twitter, why wouldn't I? Many young businesses less revering of e-mail gladly use Twitter as a valid avenue for these kinds of communications.
very few people have silly email addresses because they realize sending their CV or writing to a friend or collegue with fuckjoebiden@racism.ftw is insane. but somehow when creating their main online account on mastodon they sign up to the silliest instances and bind their own identity to these niche communities