Shoq 🌿Mar 12, 2023

RESEARCH POLL #207

A year out, when the Fediverse is everywhere among business, government, family, school and friends, will you always be comfortable with things like: 1) contacting and discussing personal matters, 2) reaching out to agencies for help, or 3) yammering about a weird interest or hobby in front of your entire social graph of followers? Or will you prolly do what many on Twitter did: use another account just for things you don't want to over-share with your main social network?

I'd want a less-public account for ONLY this.
16.7%
I'd want a less-public account for MANY reasons.
51.8%
Meh. No-issue. I have no secrets—from anyone!
31.5%
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Show threadShoq 🌿Mar 12, 2023
Not to skew the results any, but please think carefully before you choose option 3 here. Can you really think of nothing in your home, work, civic, financial, medical, education, or spiritual life, that you'd have no reservations about being so public about? None?
Show threadOlavMar 12, 2023
@shoq I probably should have picked 'don't care' because truth is, there are plenty things I don't talk about on social media. My [current/recent] employer, the names of my kids, etc. Anything actually sensitive shouldn't be anywhere on social media. E2EE chat, email, etc are far more appropriate (and secure)
Show threadShoq 🌿Mar 12, 2023
@olavf "Sensitive matters" are just one category things we might discuss. There's also simple courtesy issues like forcing your followers to mute your arguments over whether one brand of super glue works better than another, or whether your mom's dementia symptoms or bowel habits are better or worse than the norm.
Show threadDavid SlifkaMar 12, 2023
@shoq @olavf I’d love if software let people follow me for topic X but not Y, and I’d love to refine my follows similarly. But totally separate accounts seem like a not-great implementation of this need, I think?
Show threadMike Macgirvin
We implemented Google+ style "collections" at one point to provide this, but I stopped supporting this about a year ago due to lack of interest. It was a lot of code to maintain given that nobody cared. Most people I spoke with tended to prefer the total isolation of separate channels. Note this is not separate accounts because in our software you can control multiple fediverse channels with one login account.
Mar 12, 2023 at 11:52pmWeb