@lemmy.world At what point do you feel something should have it's own account?
@lemmy.world At what point do you feel something should have it's own account?
@[email protected] At what point do you feel something should have it's own account?
(e.g. Business, Project or Idea)
What do you mean by that? A community?
So say if I was to work on a project or something. At what stage would it make sense for it to become it's own account? Like is it when it gets to the point of it's own account to show the project off instead of using my own personal one?
If you're talking about an account on the fediverse, I don't think it matters much at this point.
If mean like a typical social media account like an Instagram, or a GitHub page or something, I'd say that when you want people you don't know to look at it and understand what's going on, projects should have their own account.
I have a personal Instagram account that I throw 3d printing, car, and some paint related things on so I can easily show my friends and family stuff that I do, but I also sell DnD minis and have a separate account that I only post minis to that has information about pricing and whatnot.
At the point where you don't want to link your hobby to your main account or want your main account affecting your hobby.
I've had one hobby that I pushed to a new account quickly when I realized I wanted to publicly display it and I didn't want that display to be linked to the account I was posting it from
Often enough you still want to talk about the project, so where is the border from when you should personally be talking about it and it should be it's own thing? Is it when someone see's the product more instead of you as the creator?
I look at it as a personal decision. People still post about their project on their main account even if it is well known.
Most projects I've done that included multiple people, 3 or more, have had thier own "account". It's a group effort, make it agroup identity.
Thank you that makes sense, but what about for those projects that might only be one or two people max? Like PixelFed is it's own project but it's only one developer (as far as I know)
When you want all content to be about that one thing.
Having an account for new_project_that_does_thing means all posts/comments by and messages to that account are about the project and not intermixed with other stuff. Basically when it is all about the thing and not your account talking about the thing.
Unless it's a free community project, never. I don't want to see shameless self-promotion here.
I'm not going to say it's totally wrong, but I want to see that someone has reason to be here other than sales/hype.
I'm tired of publishers and thinly-veiled engagement-bait. Tired of (paywall) crowdfunding and "I quit my job 6 months ago to work on my...". Tired of seeing beta/market testing and these things endlessly stacking together, and potential bad outcomes to this (for users or developers).
I think a community is preferable to an account for a project or idea, that way you can still discern who's talking, and it's easier to transfer a community down the road if needed.
Also, it let everyone in the project have their own account.
What about for Mastodon and stuff? Because obviously the Fediverse is larger, What sort of point would a project have to be till you should be using it's own account?
On Mastodon it kinda makes more sense to use a dedicated project account, since that's what people subscribe to.
There's still the notion of groups on Mastodon (which corelates to communities on Lemmy, ex: /c/[email protected] shows up like this on Mastodon.social but IMO the UX isn't great..
Why are you asking?
Because I have a few projects going on and not sure if it makes sense to use my main for everything
Create a brand then. That'll link everything together.
Or a band name, if you like to think musicialy