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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 06:26:41 JST Chris Trottier

   • Eugen

   "Why are you on mastodon.social?"

   I get this question a lot. The simple answer: I've had this account for 4.5 years. Back then, mastodon.social was not so big.

   I use this instance because it's maintained by @Gargron and we talk often enough.

   Sometimes we disagree, but I like have access to "vanilla" Mastodon.

   But I'm also elsewhere. I'm on *many* instances. Some are hosted by others, some are hosted by myself.

   I don't even consider this my "primary" account -- just the most visible.

   • moriteppei repeated this.
   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 06:28:44 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Eugen

     The biggest advantage of using mastodon.social is that I get access to features before everyone else.

     For example, I could edit toots before this was available to other instances.

     Sometimes I don't like a feature. So I tell @Gargron or I start a discussion on Mastodon's Github repo.

     I also donate to Mastodon because this is the venture that provides perceived validation to the rest of the Fediverse.

     moriteppei repeated this.
   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 06:32:07 JST Chris Trottier

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     The account that's hosted on mastodon.social (@atomicpoet) gets a lot of attention because I talk a lot about social media, economics, and tech.

     But I also have other accounts that touch on other topics.

     For example, @atomicpoet@peerverse.space talks about music and photography -- these are topics that are also important to me, and I want to talk about them. Folks who follow me on mastodon.social don't care so much about that stuff -- and that's fine.

     The Fediverse allows for more space.

     moriteppei repeated this.
   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 06:32:40 JST Chris Trottier

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     Now for the next question: "Why do you have so many different accounts on so many different instances?"

     Because nomadic identity hasn't gone mainstream on the Fediverse yet, so with every new service I want to use, I have to create a new account.

     Annoying? Yes.

     But that's just how it is right now.

     moriteppei repeated this.
   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 06:36:40 JST Chris Trottier

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     Now do I like the fact that, on the Fediverse, identity is tied to an instance?

     No, I really don't like that about the Fediverse.

     Again, if I had my way, identity would be wholly distinct from instances.

     More specifically, all identities would be private, and all identities would manage public personas.

     But this is a topic I'll revisit some other day.

     moriteppei repeated this.
   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 06:56:02 JST Chris Trottier

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     Yet another question: "Why don't you migrate your mastodon.social account to another instance?"

     Good god, do you want me to murder their servers?

     I get so much stuff coming to this account that it will stress any small instance.

     LOL! I know this because one day mastodon.social went down, and I started posting from another instance.

     Lo and behold, I murdered that instance -- so lesson learned.