One of the biggest problems I always had and that still causes me a lot of anxiety is how to deal with my diverse interests in the internet and social platforms.
Society has a hard time understanding that people is multidimensional and everybody and every platform is made to show just one facet of yourself.
Instead I've always preferred to not only follow humans, but also show all my facets.

All my (small) following that I've gathered over the years is because my #iosdev #swiftlang *content. *But now that I'm trying to take seriously my love for writing and maybe become and #indieauthor I face the dilema of what to do with my online persona. Everything points me towards making a separate one, focused on #writing but that's so frustrating and difficult to me.

One would think that platforms made in this decade would realize how real people are not flat characters and tailor for that. But then, maybe it's not a tech/internet issue, more of a social one.

@alexito4 I've taken to maintaining multiple accounts on different instances, one for ios dev (this one), one for games, one for fediverse dev, one for posting cat pics and complaining about politics...but it isn't seamless, sometimes I forget which account I'm posting from, and I wish I had some kind of meta-account that could coordinate them all.

@technicat that's interesting. i might endup doing that too. is just frustrating because i'm life and interests are not simple to bucket.

@alexito4 It seems to me there should be a way to do this with tags, e.g. I should be able to follow an account but specify I only want to see their #swift posts and not their #caturday posts.

@technicat haha i wish. i've wanted this in Youtube for years. Funny enough, Google+ Circles was a great step in that direction that I wished more platforms copied :D

@alexito4 I've just shifted focus on the existing account for the same reason 🙂 Creating a second account is probably cleaner, but I'm moving away from Swift development anyway and it feels like too much effort (to me at least) to create a new profile and build new relationships/userbases.

@f yes is not trivial. I think if you transition to a new topic it's easier than wanting to keep both.
Sad to lose a Swift dev tho ^^', good luck on your next endeavour

@alexito4 Thanks 🙂 Wish you luck in all your endeavours too!