Notices by Thomas (thomasw@toot.bldrweb.org)

@ntnsndr agreed, but I'm still pretty skeptical of the ownership/control over there. I'm hopeful that projects like @bonfire can give us the community level filters while still maintaining federation or portable identity.

@ntnsndr Co-op/collaborative adim or selfhosted online communities and other tools: yes!

But I think a lot of care needs to be taken when thinking about which parts define an online identity (and thus don't change or change infrequently and/or are mutually exclusive if you want multiple simultaneously) and which parts are communities your identity participates in.

Roughly, in my mind anyway:

Email, username, etc: identity

Discourse posts, toots, files, slack messages: things done by the identity.

Not the best expression of my thoughts here, but hopefully that's interesting, at least 😀

@ntnsndr bldrweb is doing alright, I think. Not seeing much member growth, but that's ok.

I don't think my local server is big enough to be useful for local-focused discussions. It seems hashtags are better for that. #boulder

I think in general, accounts (identities) should not be location specific. People move. People have multiple simultaneous locations/communities. Etc. And they don't want to manage multiple accounts (or inboxes) or try to migrate things when moving locations.

@ntnsndr

I guess another point I was trying to make: I love the idea of community/self hosted identities and spaces and tools, but I don't think I want my identity(ies) closely coupled to my physical location. I want something more permanent for my identity association.

And I usually want to minimize the number of identities I have to manage. From a privacy perspective, separate identities rarely remain fully separate, so I'd rather not fool myself into thinking they do. I mostly want these two:

- Thomas (for most everything)
- anonymous (when needed, fully ephemeral)

Hey #bldrweb - just a heads-up: I'm going to do a server upgrade today. There will be a brief downtime (5 minutes?). I'll try to announce a bit in advance.