@hauntedlatte getting lost :)
Testing other implementations of gnu.social like quitter.se

@hauntedlatte different communities

@hauntedlatte I launched a personal instance mostly to see how difficult it was and if it'd run on a raspberry pi but the quieter public timeline is actually really nice, plus m.s was straining pretty badly under the load while this Just Works

@hauntedlatte As of now, I don't think there is any.

But, as the service grows and the Federated Timeline becomes unusable, I think there might be value in following different topic-oriented instances.

@hauntedlatte I can see how multiple instances might work in the feature. An instance could be geared towards a user's interest.

@hauntedlatte I'm very curious to hear the responses to this.

@hauntedlatte absolutely none.

guessing local timeline, if instance is themed, interest-specific etc.? @hauntedlatte

@hauntedlatte mastodon.socail is a bit slow. Also different accounts on different instances means different moderation and filtering.

For example toot.cat has a CoC that is a bit different than mastodon.social, and I would like to develop interactive community governance for moderation and selecting which (if any) instances we don't want to federate with (for example if nazis started an instance)

@hauntedlatte One account per language. Each in a different instance.

Well, @hauntedlatte @BradyDale tells me its about experiencing another culture of a vertical with different rules but @BradyDale just wants to make sure that punks don't horn in on his brand.
Me... I just landed here

@hauntedlatte Gives me options for other federations to move to and still keep the same username, since there's no guarantee atm which federations will stick around and which will close down.

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If a server go down, an other account its available ;)

@hauntedlatte The "collect em all" minset, I gather.

@hauntedlatte None so far for me, there's no unification between instances. I guess if you wanted to have separate personal and professional accounts, you could do it that way?

@hauntedlatte more followers for your main

@hauntedlatte just playing with the new toy

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1) Ability to read local timelines

2) Different communities/cultures

3) Different rules

4) Redundancy

@hauntedlatte Resiliency / redundancy / fallback plan?

@hauntedlatte in addition to the normal benefits of alt accounts, some instances don't federate with others, which can lead to tactical decisions about what kind of local and fed timelines you want to look at at a given time

@hauntedlatte mainly a nick land grab, i think? also redundancy in case a node goes down/gets out of date with code. otherwise unsure

@hauntedlatte so you can toot elsewhere while mastodon.social is down :joy:

@hauntedlatte I'm using them for French vs English tooting, to avoid unreadable noise on the local public timeline.

@hauntedlatte You can be a part of different communities!

@hauntedlatte Federation functionality testing / indecisiveness. I've picked a fave now, though.

@hauntedlatte You're supposed to have an account on an instance, but the purpice is to have a lot of different instances with relatively a few users, instead of one centralized instance with a lot of users ^^.

@hauntedlatte Vanity only, I think. Preserve your pseudo across all instances.

@hauntedlatte none i think

I can see myself using (mastodon.social VS toot.cat) similarly to my (public, mostly tech VS private, mostly feelings) accounts on twitter

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@hauntedlatte I used Memetastic to test out, taking the opportunity with a less professional account. Still learning.

@hauntedlatte I keep seeing people say it's good for redundancy and backup, but how is it a backup if when you move instances you lose all your follows and followers?

@hauntedlatte 1 main and 1 failsafe :)

@hauntedlatte You can reconnect to another instance and talks with other federated instance in the case of you primary one went down.

@hauntedlatte Access to very different local & federated timelines? Different communities?

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- one acount in french as a free software hacktivist
- another in english as a scientist researcher
the two accounts are on different instances, for different uses.

@hauntedlatte different local feeds.

@hauntedlatte Double Lyfe :)

@hauntedlatte local communities would be the biggest difference I think.