casraf 🇮🇱I love the #Fediverse concept, but I'm now not sure whether I should maintain & separate different profiles (maybe per topic space?) or keep all the eggs in one basket which can randomly be down :')
The local feed is probably the biggest hurdle to overcome. Even if I have my own instance...
bignoseGo for it @casraf, many of us do.
What you describe is an important part of the #Fediverse. There's explicit support for voluntarily tying your various identities together:
Just, when you (speaking more broadly to anyone reading, now) set up accounts on multiple instances: Please consider #FundYourInstance for each of them.
The system needs to be self-supporting, we don't have (and don't want) #VultureCapital as a way for instances to survive.
@bignose I'm definitely considering it... I'd just hate having to re-gather followers (not that I'm very popular) and telling people to go between various profiles - seeing as I won't necessarily want to migrate one account to the next, but split profiles. Do you have any suggestions on how to manage such a thing? Or just give in to it and let the new profile grow on its own?
@casraf You can let your followers know about your other identity, by *selectively* and *low-volume* curating posts from yourself: When a post from another identity is truly relevant to this audience as well, boost it with this identity.
Use very sparingly, as people who follow both of them will quickly tire of seeing you do this too often. (Until Mastodon gains the ability to ignore posts you've already seen, which might be coming soon?)
@bignose Thanks :) that's a good idea. If I also get my own instance (maybe alongside others), would federating it be a problem? Or should I not worry about it? Sorry for asking many possibly-dumb questions :')
@casraf You are strongly encouraged to enable federation on any public instance, yes.
The system likes it (modulo resource constraints, which the developer community is working to address fairly, and aren't your problem while you have a small number of followers).
@bignose Thanks for the clarification. I had a bit of problem finding information about this, but before, I was under the impression federating means registering with some other networks with a possible vetting process.
Now I think that discovery is pretty automatic, as long as the instance somehow enters the circulation of content (by follows/boosts/stars/replies I guess). Am I correct?
@casraf I don't think federation implies discoverability, no. They're separate AFAICT.
Rather, federation means you allow your posts to appear elsewhere using ActivityPub between instances. But allowing it doesn't entail that it'll happen 😉
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