Gregory's Server@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
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: