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! 😁
@nolan This is one way to use a social network. But my view is different: I have diffent interests and of course live with different roles e.g. Father, Husband, Employee, Tecky, Biker, Dancer... But this is natural for all of us and the constant is ME the Individuum. And in every role and situation I am the constant. So splitting myself into multiple accounts (beside Business/Private) is for me no option.
@vilbi I think the thing that will make the single-account system untenable is separate guidelines for each instance. E.g. let's say I'm on a G-rated instance with my kids, but I also enjoy erotic fanfiction and so I've joined an instance for that. My choice is to either have two accounts or to be banned from the G-rated instance. 🙂
Not trying to tell people how to live their lives on Mastodon, but I suspect this kind of system will emerge naturally, especially as Mastodon grows.