Oh gosh, this is the wrong direction to be going.
On ActivityPub we should be consolidating accounts, not building clients to indulge and encourage multiple accounts.
And yes to XMPP. But keep it out of ActivityPub, which is really not a platform that's conducive to private content of any sort.
It's just the wrong tool for the job.
@kevinrothrock
Oh, I completely agree that multiple accounts have their place.
I'd describe that as multiple identities: work identity vs social identity. I'm 100% on board with that.
However, what we see around here are individuals with a single identity feeling like they have to set up and juggle multiple accounts for the same social identity because they want to use different features of different interfaces.
It's an unfortunate hassle where a person within a single identity would like to have a single follow/follower list and such but doesn't feel like they can because they want to post both written word on Mastodon and music on whatever that interface is called.
So yep, two different use cases, I'm talking about the second one.
@BradRubenstein @kevinrothrock
@volkris @BradRubenstein @kevinrothrock
What's wrong with multiple accounts?
I wouldn't want to mix work contacts with friends, or either with a hobby my friends aren't remotely interested in, etc. etc.
What's wrong with that? Why should I need to have the same level of anonymity on each account and annoy my few followers with stuff they don't want to see?
And that's besides dealing with instance blocks.