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Criteria for account creation and identity on the Fediverse (lemmy.ml)
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Hello to everybody. I am quite conflicted concerning the way I should manage my presence on the #Fediverse, which instances to join, and how many accounts to use.

In particular, I would like to understand whether the way to go is to have one unique account for everything on a general instance, or rather to create multiple accounts in topic-specific instances and use each one to post about that topic only. For example, should I use @[email protected] only for posts in Italian, @[email protected] for academic stuff only, @[email protected] for book-related content?

I fear that having too many account could fragment my follower-base and I would lose my (already quite-little) presence. On the other hand, having separate multiple account makes sense for order and organizational purposes.

What is your take on this?

Thanks a lot!
Tommi

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Generally it makes sense to have different accounts for different fediverse implementations (e.g. one for mastodon, one for lemmy, one for pixelfed). On the other hand, there's no need to join multiple instances with the same implementation if they federate with one another - that's the point of federation!

However, perhaps for privacy reasons you may which to keep your different interests separate from one another in case they might be identifying.