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How many social network accounts should a person have?

So, first of all, people got *really* hung up on the word "should" here. I added the question to my poll FAQ: evanp.me/pollfaq/#should

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So, on to number of accounts. First, I think the idea that each person should have one account per social network service is bullshit. I should be able to follow people on any social network from whatever account I currently use.

Second, it's also broken to have one social network account per type of content shared (images, video, audio, documents, ...). We've had social networks that can handle different kinds of content since the mid 2000s. Segmenting networks on content is also bullshit.

Matthew Booth

@evan This is my main problem with Pixelfed and Peeryube. What I suspect I really want is different operating modes for my Mastodon client.

@mattb Agreed. Support for the ActivityPub API in more of our fediverse platforms would make this kind of interaction easier.