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Nolan @nolan

If you use one account for everything, you may not be seeing the full breadth of Mastodon. Get an account on an art instance, watch the cool art fly by the local timeline. Get an account on a French instance, bone up on your high school French. Make an instance for your coworkers, talk shop.

I don't wear swim trunks to work, I don't wear a suit to the pub, and I don't wear cargo shorts to my sister's wedding. Apply that to Mastodon and you might find it's quite natural. Decentralize yourself! 😁

Bryan Tsang @bvtsang@community.highlandarrow.com
@nolan But at the same time, it's cumbersome to manage many accounts (at least until there's a good tool that lets you do it), and it's easier to have one account follow many different people. Like, there's not a good reason for someone to register for multiple email providers (not a fair comparison, but you get the point). Tradeoffs, I guess.
Andrew Roach ✅ @ajroach42@mastodon.social

@bvtsang @nolan I have accounts with multiple email providers. (Gmail, work account, freelance professional account, admin accounts for various services I run, spam account, secure//encrypted account)

Most people I know have at least two mail accounts.

I have most of them in a single mail client (gmail, at the moment) but not all of them.

Bryan Tsang @bvtsang@community.highlandarrow.com
@ajroach42 @nolan I admit the registering-for-multiple-email-addresses scenario isn't a fair comparison because email accounts aren't social network accounts. But the tools we have for managing email accounts are good, or at least better than the ones we have (do we have any?) for managing multiple Mastodon accounts.
Nolan @nolan

@bvtsang @ajroach42 Yeah true, I think another hidden element here is that public follower counts encourage this mindset of "just use one account, get all my followers there so the number goes higher." Give people a single number to judge their success by, and they will try to optimize it.

For toot.cafe it's very likely we'll cap public follower counts at 100 or so: github.com/tootcafe/discussion

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