how are people doing locked alts here? is that even a thing mastodon is set up to do?
@oddletters I would also recommend requiring follow requests, so that rubberneckers can't follow you and see your posts out of mere curiosity. This is, for some reason, in a whole different part of the preferences, Profile/Appearance
@oddletters can’t you just be on another instance with a different identity?
@oddletters or do i misunderstand?
@nancybaym no that's what i mean ☺️
@oddletters @nancybaym there are a few ways to do this
- different accounts, either on the same server or different servers.
- For some it's good enough to have one account and just turn on follow requests and then make some of your posts followers-only and other posts public
Important to note that there's no way to restrict your posts to *mutuals* in Mastodon, but manually approving followers is a good-enough balm. (I do hope they offer that at some point though)
@oddletters I am using different servers for alts. On apps like Tusky multiple accounts on the same server are fine, but on desktop there is no native account switching functionality, so different servers are easier for me.
@oddletters in browser land, I found Firefox containers to really help keep accounts separated and prevent cross over following / posting by accident. The official iOS app has great account switching, and for I while I was using different apps to engage different accounts (but that got annoying?)
@oddletters I feel like people do have very locked down accounts on here pre-dating the current influx but having not had one myself I'm not sure what the best advice is. I think you can turn follow requests on and set your posts to followers only and do it that way?
@oddletters Change the default post privacy to followers-only. It's in Preferences/Other