Evan ProdromouHave you created an extra Fediverse account just to get access to additional content?
Yes
Yes, but...
No, but...
No
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Thanks everyone who replied.
I've mostly been thinking of this in terms of tags.pub. I've spoken to a number of people who had accounts on personal Fediverse servers or small sites, who also got accounts on mastodon.social so they could follow the hashtags there. I know other people do the same for search.
There are other examples in replies: using the Threadiverse for a different social structure, using Mobilizon for a different kind of data.
I know that this kind of vague poll is frustrating for some people. I don't think I can accurately catalogue ALL the possible ways and reasons that people could set up accounts on different servers to get different content.
And I don't think it leads to interesting results: "only reply yes if you created an account on a big Mastodon server to get a hashtag stream, BUT NOT if you joined a Hometown server to get the server-local stream, UNLESS you also got better search on the Hometown server than on your one person, OR if you got on Pixelfed to see more than 4 photos per post, ..."
These polls are for fun. If you don't like thinking about the question, and what kind of cases it could apply to, and what it means to you personally, and the different ways it could be defined, then you're not going to have fun and you should probably block #EvanPoll.
Alternately, if you find them frustrating, you could pick a different question to ask each day from https://evanp.me/pollfaq , and just do it over and over again until I finally quit. That's called playing the long game!
stevenray@evan I have long wondered the reason for these polls, and what the data was used for. I figured they were meant to inform decisions regarding Fedi development priorities (moving forward).
@stevenray If you look at the #EvanPoll hashtag, you'll see a lot of other topics. I'm a whole person with many other interests besides Fediverse protocol and software development.
@stevenray that said, it does actually affect how I think, and sometimes how I work. Not in any official way but finding out what people's lived experience is, and what their expectations are, changes how I do my work. So maybe you're more right than I've been willing to admit.
It also leads to confusion and chaos when someone points out an exception halfway through. "Someone just reminded me that you can follow Pixelfed accounts from Bookwyrm, so now we're changing the question to mean ONLY this case BUT NOT that case so I'm going to delete it and repost, everyone please vote again..."
Anyway, to the person who got mad that I wouldn't provide an exhaustive definition of "content" and blocked me: I get it, I know it can be annoying, and if it's not fun for you, you don't have to play. No hard feelings.
Stu@evan Yeah, everyone should just feel comfortable skipping. Some I don't get, some I don't feel qualified to answer, and so on.
For this one I assumed you meant things like Pixelfed and Loops. I did see that thread you posted about tags.pub and didn't actually understand what it was. I figured I'd get it eventually as you wrote about it more :)
Sarah Sammis@evan I have this one which is local to where I live and I have another one with ties to family.
@pussreboots oh that's nice!
andyc@evan Back to tags.pub. If I follow a popular hashtag like #emacs where 5,000 people spread across 10 instances post with the emacs hashtag, I see all posts from any instance I am currently linked to but miss any folk on (small, personal) instances I may be unaware of.
However, for the tags.pub emacs stream to match (or surpass) following hash tag it would need all 5,000 emacs minded folk to consciously sign up for tags.pub. Is that correct ?
Not trolling, just trying to understand fully.
Nathan A. Stine@evan I said "no" but I guess it's kind of a yes. My initial lemmy account was on a server that was not reliable so I made a new account on a different server.
Scott Michaud@stinerman @evan Yeah I'm thinking that "server is shutting down" / "server might as well be shutting down" doesn't count.
@scottmichaud @stinerman that seems reasonable!
⁂ Kaleb@evan once the poll closes I’d love to hear why people might do this. I’ve spent more time trying to limit the content – both in terms of quality and volume – with blocklists and other tools.
@kaleb so, you want people to explain to you why they wanted more content?
@evan no, I’m hoping to understand why one would create a different account to access more content. I suppose I may have misinterpreted the original poll question, but I don’t understand how an additional account would grant access to additional content not available to one’s original account. I understand the desire to have multiple accounts to separate topics – it may be a distinction without a difference – but this seems to me different than what was asked.
manchicken@evan not all servers offer all services, so I have a couple accounts.
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Mucho Lucho@evan I have a pixelfed account, so yes?
prom™️@evan Yes, but it makes sense to have community splits. It's one of the things that makes Fedi so cool. I wish we had a way to create these types of communities, without binding them to domain names and the sociotope of an instance. (like Discord "servers" or Matrix "spaces" - distributed social groups, across a federated system)
@promovicz we're working on it!
TravisThis is so cool and I really appreciate the effort your group has put into it.
I notice the current draft formalizes an admin role with membership control. Has the task force considered whether the specification should also accommodate or remain compatible with consensus-based governance models? Many communities desire democratic control over membership decisions and I'm wondering if the spec could be designed to support multiple governance patterns rather than privileging a single authoritarian hierarchical one.
@travislf @promovicz you should add an issue for it!
@evan @promovicz On it!
Katzentratschen@evan I've signed up on Pixelfed a long time ago, but I don't use this account anymore. So it's "Yes, but" for me, I guess. Dealing with some missing pictures (i.e. more than four pictures per post on Mastodon) is more bearable than dealing with lots of missing content (i.e. text-only posts and some types of replies on Pixelfed).
Thiago, the one they call Jedi@evan not for extra content, but to have some separation of content.
That being said, I can see how someone who's first / main fediverse profile is on some focused server like Bookwyrm may create a Sharkey profile to have access to microblogging Notes or something
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Robert W. Gehl@evan what do you mean by "content"?
@evan So this is less about access to different people/accounts and more about different... videos? Images? That sort of thing?
@rwg Anyway, I'm not sure I understand your question. It's surprising to me that you're not familiar with the term "content" or "Web content". I think you might be trying to make a subtle distinction that's lost on me.
Regardless, yes, I was specifically asking about joining a service to see more/different notes, articles, videos, audio, images, and other stuff, and different ways of collecting and filtering them.
An example might be creating a mastodon.social account to follow a hashtag.
Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦@evan but I have multiple accounts created for my pets so at least I can create an appearance of conversation.
Rachel Rawlings@evan I don't see the point of an extra account for "more access" but I do have a second account to separate more professional content from my usual shitposting.
Dr.Implausible@evan Let's ses: Mastodon, Loops, a couple Peertube accounts, several that got added automatically with that Wordperfect plugin (and since removed?), and there's probably a few I'm forgetting.
I would love to collapse the waveforms and consolidate these "me"s in the 'verse
Sammie 🐨🦘
krejgo@evan my "yes but" is for communicating / following solely in a second language ( #Esperanto )
Stefan Bohacek@evan No, but I do use an older account I have on mastodon.social when I need to do a broader search.
@stefan Hmm. That's an interesting variation on the same problem!
Eric Carroll@evan
I have an alt account on an instance that follows alot of hashtags of interest from multiple relay instances.
I have an alt account on an instance that follows alot of hashtags of interest from multiple relay instances.
@EricCarroll a great example!
Space Burger Steve 🌌🍔🤪@evan I have one account on a tightly moderated server so I can connect with the hippest of cats, and one account on a more "I didn't see it / dog whistles don't count" server so I can see almost everyone else.
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tup@evan I created a Pixelfed account because I can’t use my kolektiva one there. That’s one of the main broken promises I’ve seen in the fediverse that I hope one day will be fixed.
My dad joined the fediverse yesterday by creating an account on mastodon.social, and when I told him about “imagine being able to log in to Instagram with you Twitter account” I had to be careful and say “although that’s still work in progress”.
This was one of my main selling points to join the fediverse, although I’m staying for other reasons (mainly for its decentralized nature).
Anyways, I love the work that you’ve done and that you’re still doing here in the fediverse. I hope we can keep you around for as long as possible!