I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
Pretty interesting opinion piece on some of the UX hurdles open source and federated software faces.
For example I use two accounts on different servers with very different content. Personally I really like that separation.
Yeah, same here; I also have multiple Mastodon accounts. Ironically, the “everything” nature of Twitter was something that made me not use it much, because I have multiple interests some of which are quite disparate (for example, videogames, and some professional field), and so I was never really comfortable with those streams mixing readily.
With Mastodon I can easily keep them separate but also have the option to cross-post whenever I want.
Yeah, same here; I also have multiple Mastodon accounts. Ironically, the “everything” nature of Twitter was something that made me not use it much, because I have multiple interests some of which are quite disparate (for example, videogames, and some professional field), and so I was never really comfortable with those streams mixing readily.
With Mastodon I can easily keep them separate but also have the option to cross-post whenever I want.