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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:24:41 JST Evan Prodromou

   So, first of all, people got *really* hung up on the word "should" here. I added the question to my poll FAQ: https://evanp.me/pollfaq/#should

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:28:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     So, on to number of accounts. First, I think the idea that each person should have one account per social network service is bullshit. I should be able to follow people on any social network from whatever account I currently use.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:29:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Second, it's also broken to have one social network account per type of content shared (images, video, audio, documents, ...). We've had social networks that can handle different kinds of content since the mid 2000s. Segmenting networks on content is also bullshit.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:31:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     So, I lean toward having just one account. However, I recognize that with other communications media, like email, we tend to have a small number of accounts: one personal, one for work or school, then a couple of throwaways for dating or selling furniture on Craigslist. I think with the roles a person can have a small number, like 2-5, makes the most sense.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:33:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Some people suggested having different accounts for different topics you post about -- music, tech, family, etc. I think this is better handled with addressable lists (send this post to my close friends and family, this one to my electric car friends, this one to my Linux friends, ...). More generally, hashtags can manage this, too. So, I don't think you need different accounts for different topics, unless you need to be able to disavow any connection to the topic (e.g. political or sexual).

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:35:50 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Michael Bishop ☕

     @MichaelBishop Agreed! I wrote about this in my ActivityPub book.

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     Michael Bishop ☕ (michaelbishop@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:35:51 JST Michael Bishop ☕

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     @evan we need a better way to buy and sell than Craigslist or Marketplace that is part of the Fediverse.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:44:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • lakelady

     @lakelady Our friends need to be nicer and more supportive about things we are interested in.

     That said, having addressable lists (Diaspora* aspects, Google+ circles, Facebook friend lists) means you can proactively select just a few people to share with.

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     lakelady (lakelady@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:44:41 JST lakelady

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     @evan hashtags don't work very well at preventing flooding friends' feeds with things they aren't interested in.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:46:10 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthew Booth

     @mattb Agreed. Support for the ActivityPub API in more of our fediverse platforms would make this kind of interaction easier.

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     Matthew Booth (mattb@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:46:11 JST Matthew Booth

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     @evan This is my main problem with Pixelfed and Peeryube. What I suspect I really want is different operating modes for my Mastodon client.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:50:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Fifi Lamoura

     @fifilamoura Agreed! I think personal safety is a big reason to keep separate accounts. I wonder how many more accounts make sense in that scenario, though. 1? 10? 100?

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 03:50:54 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     @evan Women and queer people often have to worry about safety, this is another very important reason we sometimes choose anonymity to avoid making ourselves easy to track and abuse. I think a lot of cis men still underestimate the amount of quite extreme abuse the rest of us can be subjected to online and how that can easily move offline if we're easily identifiable.

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     hallenbeck (hallenbeck@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 04:09:00 JST hallenbeck

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     @evan I also quite like the idea of hashtag contexts. So you switch into, say, gardening context and all your posts have a user-defined set of hashtags automatically added until you switch context again. Very useful for current events (e.g. a sports match) in particular where it is easy to forget to add your hashtags.

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     hallenbeck (hallenbeck@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 04:09:01 JST hallenbeck

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     @evan This is the exact use case for why I set up this account. It turned out, the thousand or so followers on my "main" account aren't interested in esoteric posts about Tottenham Hotspur, and with there being no algorithm, I felt it better to create a separate account I could post "freely" on.

     Using (guppe) groups works quite well when added to a list and excluded from main timeline. Can't add hashtags to lists, though.

     Would love smthg like the old Google+ Circles if you remember those?

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 04:10:20 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • hallenbeck

     @hallenbeck @evan I've been wanting something like this ever since I joined Fedi.

     I've been begging third party app makers for a "Hashtag Drawer" where I could save a group of hashtags or even individual hashtags to the composer for easy re-use.

     Your suggestion seems very close to that.

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     Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 04:22:33 JST Tom Casavant

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     @BeAware @hallenbeck @evan I was thinking about building something like that client-side for NFL content. So it shows you all the current games and you click on one and it's just a feed of people using some predefined hashtags for each team. Then when you send a message to the feed it just appends the hashtags to your post

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     hallenbeck (hallenbeck@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 04:39:54 JST hallenbeck

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     @tom

     It's a great idea! I love hashtags because they're portable, flexible and accessible. I like how official Mastodon has standardised on interpreting the last line in a post as a hashtag "footer". Very neat and agreeable. However, it's consistently *adding* hashtags to every message that's tricky, especially in a fast paced environment like a sports match.

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