not for the first time, I have seen someone complain on the fediverse that they are considering muting mastodon.social because its catch-all nature makes the federated global timeline unusable
[whispering] this is why I think the federated global timeline is a misfeature
edit: to expand a bit, I think both "having one identity on a catch-all network" and "having multiple identities on subject-specific networks" are reasonable usage models1, but not only do both of them have weak points, but building a system that's so general that it allows different communities of people to use different norms creates a bunch of unnecessary strife across the impedance mismatch
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though I think only the former can truly be called "like e-mail"; if you send an e-mail about the football game from
greg at electronics.chat,majordomo at electronics.chatdoesn't generally drop in to complain that you're not using mail.electronics.chat for its intended purpose and you're making everyone else's experience worse.
