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Thomas

@ntnsndr bldrweb is doing alright, I think. Not seeing much member growth, but that's ok.

I don't think my local server is big enough to be useful for local-focused discussions. It seems hashtags are better for that. #boulder

I think in general, accounts (identities) should not be location specific. People move. People have multiple simultaneous locations/communities. Etc. And they don't want to manage multiple accounts (or inboxes) or try to migrate things when moving locations.

8 March at 12:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.bldrweb.org
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Thomas

@ntnsndr Co-op/collaborative adim or selfhosted online communities and other tools: yes!

But I think a lot of care needs to be taken when thinking about which parts define an online identity (and thus don't change or change infrequently and/or are mutually exclusive if you want multiple simultaneously) and which parts are communities your identity participates in.

Roughly, in my mind anyway:

Email, username, etc: identity

Discourse posts, toots, files, slack messages: things done by the identity.

Not the best expression of my thoughts here, but hopefully that's interesting, at least 😀

@ntnsndr Co-op/collaborative adim or selfhosted online communities and other tools: yes!

But I think a lot of care needs to be taken when thinking about which parts define an online identity (and thus don't change or change infrequently and/or are mutually exclusive if you want multiple simultaneously) and which parts are communities your identity participates in.

8 March at 13:05 | Open on toot.bldrweb.org
Thomas

@ntnsndr

I guess another point I was trying to make: I love the idea of community/self hosted identities and spaces and tools, but I don't think I want my identity(ies) closely coupled to my physical location. I want something more permanent for my identity association.

And I usually want to minimize the number of identities I have to manage. From a privacy perspective, separate identities rarely remain fully separate, so I'd rather not fool myself into thinking they do. I mostly want these two:

- Thomas (for most everything)
- anonymous (when needed, fully ephemeral)

@ntnsndr

I guess another point I was trying to make: I love the idea of community/self hosted identities and spaces and tools, but I don't think I want my identity(ies) closely coupled to my physical location. I want something more permanent for my identity association.

And I usually want to minimize the number of identities I have to manage. From a privacy perspective, separate identities rarely remain fully separate, so I'd rather not fool myself into thinking they do. I mostly want these two:

8 March at 13:40 | Open on toot.bldrweb.org
Nathan Schneider

@thomasw totally reasonable points. And I think this is one thing I prefer about the composable model of AT Protocol: the layering of relationships, rather than Mastodon's one size fits all.

8 March at 14:13 | Open on social.coop
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@thomasw @ntnsndr Agreed that tags are the way to go for now. I like frontrange.co and follow #boulder and #cuboulder tags for local info. Maybe we could assemble a list of other local tags to the front range area so that we can all be in the loop better.

8 March at 13:15 | Open on frontrange.co
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