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dansup

I really struggle with being able to separate Pixelfed from my personal life on this account.

Pixelfed feels like my whole identity on the fediverse, and its awkward when I am personal because it feels like I'm using my position with Pixelfed to my advantage.

It feels fake and I hate that

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ariel

@dansup you could try and limit yourself to posting about pixelfed on the @pixelfed account, and at most boost from your personal

dansup

@ariel Yeah but the issue is this account has 6k+ followers.

I don't want people to judge me based on Pixelfed or follower counts.

I'm sure other project devs don't have this problem because they have connections and friends on the fedi, I don't.

stux⚡

@dansup Use it however you like Daniel ❤️ I had this issue with mstdn.. But at some point you gotta think:

It's YOUR social platform, the one YOU worked hard for so you can also have a way of expressing yourself ❤️ And that makes Pixelfed and Daniel :ablobwink:​

Don't worry, takes makes you the most real of them all

Coralie Mercier

@dansup please, try not to struggle, because it’s not worth it and more to the point: are you taking advantage? I don’t think so.
Followers count is a byproduct of so many factors. In your case, quite possibly mainly the result of your good and ethical work on pixelfed.
I hope you get to enjoy yourself on this personal account.

Coralie Mercier

@dansup may I suggest you read about the 4 toltec agreements (in particular 3 on not making assumptions)?

toltecspirit.com

dragfyre

@dansup
I dunno, I don't feel too surprised when I see personal stuff on your feed. maybe it's because I'm a hipster who followed you fairly early on(?) tho.

If you feel too much like a rockstar tho, you could always start a new, lower-profile account on a different server. I have two different accounts, one here for regular dev and tech stuff and one for interfaith and random musings about spirituality.

Григорий Клюшников

To me, it feels somewhat strange that people who don't speak Russian follow this account where I mostly post personal stuff in Russian. As opposed to the one on mastodon.social where I mainly post Smithereen stuff in English. But, yeah, at some point I realized that I do have this separation. You have a separate account for Pixelfed, so it's definitely fine to use this account as your personal one.

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