Evan ProdromouHave you created an extra Fediverse account just to get access to additional content?
Yes
Yes, but...
No, but...
No
Poll ended at .
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.
stevenray@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.