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I really don't like the idea of topic-specific instances being the standard way to handle group discussions in Mastodon. I don't want to juggle 15 different identities and 15 different sets of credentials just because I'm interested in 15 different things. Early adopters may put up with that kind of hassle, but a mass audience never will. And having to set up and maintain a whole instance just to host a group means that few groups will ever be formed.
I feel like there has to be a better way.
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@eylul No worries! It was a great, thoughtful reply, lots for me to think about.
Where I think the neighborhood analogy falls down is that there's generally nothing special you have to do to go from one neighborhood to another. Whereas moving from instance to instance involves doing some work -- juggling passwords, etc.
It's like if you could only go from neighborhood to neighborhood if you changed your clothes each time first.