Andrew Roach โœ… is a user on mastodon.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse. If you don't, you can sign up here.

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! ๐Ÿ˜

@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.

@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.

@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.
Andrew Roach โœ… @ajroach42

@bvtsang @nolan we don't have any at the moment. That's the biggest issue so far.

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