New in Exploring Mastodon:
The usual Twitter convention is to follow the whole person, meaning one Twitter account for a person would tweet on many different subjects. In the Fediverse, we see people having multiple Mastodon (and other) accounts.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#multiple-mastodon-accounts
@mfowler this picture might help to visualize the #Fediverse showing that Mastodon is 1 piece in the puzzle.
@mfowler I was just thinking about this, from the direction of being multilingual.
I try and follow the Norwegian conversation discussing Norwegian stuff.
I also want to listen to you and others for work/knowledge stuff.
Lastly I am learning Welsh for fun.
All this works fine until i post, then I will be irrelevant or noise to two of the groups. That isn't ideal for a conversation.
@mfowler I am a Twitter multi-account user, as I wanted to differentiate personal stuff from work stuff, and also had a different one for gaming stuff. Now I realize that was a drawback that probably left me without the right number of followers.
However, on Mastodon the instance you choose might have an impact in whether you need multiple accounts or not, as some servers have rules of conduct that disallow people from tooting whatever they like (example, fosstodon toots should be Engilsh only)
@mfowler The assumption that single accounts is the convention is interesting!
I know many people on Twitter, myself included, who had multiple accounts. Those other accounts were often kept private, though, since they were dedicated to things like personal venting, "after dark" (adult) content, and other sensitive or marginalized topics. Here on Mastodon, it's been much easier to find instances where one can let their hair down and drop the "normie" mask.
So it's perhaps less of a convention on Twitter and more like a reflection of how that space forces normative presentation.
@mfowler It's interesting (and mortifying) to watch the real-time gentrification of the Fediverse in the other replies: Multiple white men failing to see the need for multiple accounts without realizing that society accommodates nearly all of their "whole person" by default.
Meanwhile, many marginalized people first joined Mastodon as a second account because Twitter accommodated little if any of their whole selves.
Where else are you seeing this gentrification?
@mfowler I too am thinking of separating myself into two presences. Please keep us posted on tricks of the trade if you decide to do it. Thanks.
A problem I see is how do I apportion people I follow among accounts if those people don't have split personalities. Do you know if there's a way to coalesce personalities into a single incoming feed?
@marick I have colleagues who do this, but I'm not inclined to yet.
For following, I'd do what I do now with lists. Put each account into what makes the best broad fit.
Multiple accounts are not required in ActivityPub, because identity token is URL which contains your public key.
https://toot.thoughtworks.com/users/mfowler.json notice id-property.
For instance Mastodon could allow posting to different servers with single identity.
Your client would sign a message with your ActivityPub private key and send the message as pair of your ID and signed message.
It would of course need a way to aggregate one's posts as coherent timeline from multiple servers.
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