@estrapade @noracodes One thing that I now technically understand but that I don’t really feel comfortable about is that with choosing an instance you are choosing the bubble that you are in, and it is not directly apparent which one you’re in and what other bubbles there are.

@kaukamieli Yup that’s what I meant. I have accounts on different servers because of discoverability, by watching the federated feed and by following federated toots by tag. I suppose I could do the same with only one account by visiting instances that have their feeds publicly accessible and picking users to follow. But that’s more work and not part of my daily routine.

@kaukamieli Well that’s the thing. The way I understand it, when you follow a tag, you follow it in the federated toots. For example I follow #c64 on my c64.chat account and it has way less hits than when I follow the same tag on mastodon.social

@chordian You could at least secure your identity on c64.net before it becomes the next big thing ;)

@chordian Yeah first I thought of just switching accounts but then I run into these discoverability issues. Plus, when joining a new small instance, I am pretty much in the dark how well it will be maintained and how long it’s going to be in existence. So I kept my first account for those reasons and try to keep retrocomputing stuff separate from my more ‘normal’ identity. For a curious techie like me this is ok, but I can understand people that don’t wish to dive into these details.