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 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?
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