@gideonro (*wave; I think our paths have crossed at times over on G+) note that it's not necessary to have separate accounts on multiple instances to follow the (public) posts of other instances. You can access the public posts from a Mastodon server by going to /public/local (or /public, depending on the version or fork), e.g. https://toot.cat/public/local or https://merveilles.town/public
Some apps have even included this as built-in functionality; for example #fedilab for Android allows you to follow various platforms' public timelines as separate timeline columns: https://fedilab.app/wiki/features/reorder-timelines/ (scroll down to the bottom).
Though some instances have disabled this feature.
While this doesn't expose your on-topic posts directly to users of a like-minded community, it can at least work for your own content discovery of posts and people who discuss topics you find interesting.
If you want to go the multiple profiles way, then perhaps a protocol that has #nomadicIdentity support such as #zap / #zot6 or whatever it goes by these days, might be worth looking into. If you have contacts on non-activitypub networks as well, such as #Diaspora* or #Hubzilla, then #Friendica might also be worth checking out.
@dredmorbius @gfriend @woozle

@tchambers
@sandro @f00fc7c8

You know what would be awesome? If #Zot6 and #ActivityWeb converged.

@deadsuperhero did tinker on Hubzilla forks back in the day but somewhere along the line it fell off.

I wish there was something that combines the power & richness of Hubzilla/Streams/Diaspora with ubiquitous adaptive nature of ActivityPub.

Being able to mirror content & identity across hubs/nodes in real time and encrypted?🧑‍🍳 💋

@brianjgriffith If it's already down, unfortunately, it's gone, unless the admin is willing or can manually export and give you your data. It's a limitation of the #ActivityPub protocol.

As an aside: This is what the #Zot / #Zot6 protocol solved (used by #Hubzilla platform). Your identity and data can exist in multiple servers (you still sign-up, then it is copied over, so you still have the choice). If one goes down, you can switch your “main” server with three clicks.

@ChrisWere as someone with a low-end laptop, I liked the idea of Stadia. Unfortunately the monthly subscription wasn't something that fit my budget. In hindsight I kinda wished I had, because all the refunds sound lovely. xD
As for a title for your podcast, how about something like "(Thought-share / Share a thought) with Chris Were"?
One of the positive things of the Fediverse indeed is the bit more thoughtful comments. For instance compared to Instagram it feels less like a circlejerk where people just comment to get comments back, or otherwise promote their own account.
In a way it feels rather like the early and late #GooglePlus, but without the risk / guarantee that Google will just pull the plug. There are some things I wish would be added though, most notably:

• • consistent formatting support across protocols, or at least better fallbacks. This list being one example of that. On #glitchSoc I can use markdown to get a HTML-formatted list with bulleted list items. On plain #Mastodon however the whole list semantics get lost, and to a significant portion of users it wouldn't be clear that it was actually meant as a list. So, as a compromise I have to try to remember to add a manual bullet list character (•) so that it will at least appear as a list on non-formatting-supporting platforms. On others however I'll now likely have two leading bullets, and it'll likely get pronounced by TTS engines.I rather wish that the markdown gets sent and received as plain text by the platforms that don't support HTML formatting, rather than the HTML-formatted output which then gets outright stripped on the display end. Content-warning support between Mastodon and #Friendica is a similar thing.
• • migration of posts / #NomadicIdentity. It's great that we can migrate our follows and followers and various lists between #Mastodon instances. However, the thing I care about the most, my history of posts, would unceremoniously get left behind on the server. This isn't much of an issue if you are just moving servers because you like the community or features of another server better, as people can still access your older (public/unlisted) posts, but it is a loss when you migrate because the former server is getting shut down. I know that some Fediverse protocols do offer post migration, or even auto-mirroring, through nomadic identities, most notably those using the #Zot6 (or #Zap it's called now, I think?), but it'd be nice if Mastodon (which for better or for worse still feels like the leading platform of the fediverse) would also implement this, and if there was better support for migrating between these different platforms.
• • better visibility controls. It'd be nice if I could limit some posts to just a list of users, without having to tag them individually (and thus have it treated as a DM rather than a regular timeline post). Again, this is more of a Mastodon specific limitation; #Diaspora* and Friendica (iirc) most notably do support this already, with Diaspora*'s 'aspects' probably being closest to #GPlus's 'circles' feature.
• • 'Collections'. This was probably my favourite feature of Google Plus. Being able to group your posts under topics without having to rely on hashtags. You could add a separate header image for the collection as well as a description, both of which were nice additions, but the killer aspect of it to me was that you could specify if people would automatically follow that Collection when they'd follow your account. And like-wise, I could unfollow specific collections from people I'd follow, or follow just individual ones of them without following everything they posted. This made it possible to follow just someone's Doctor Who posts, or to follow someone's generic posts without having to listen to their political ranting.Sure, Mastodon has the $userprofile/tagged/#hashtag filter (e.g. https://toot.cat/@FiXato/tagged/Collections), but that is limited to public posts, and only supports a single hashtag at a time. Plus, you have to remember to use the right hashtag every time for each of your #collections. It feels like a hack, a bodge, rather than a full-fledged feature.

As for some (hopefully regarded as constructive) feedback to your podcast: I felt like it repeated itself a couple of times, and could probably have been 5 – 10 minutes shorter (which, yes, is kinda ironic (?) criticism given the length of my post 😅). After the Stadia segment you had your closing segment, which then basically went on into a segment about the #Fediverse, which I feel like could easily have been an episode of its own. For something I access through my Mastodon feed, I think 10 – 15 minutes is kinda the sweet spot when it comes to maximum length. (Though this might be more of a client-specific thing, as I couldn't continue scrolling my feed on Fedilab while listening, whereas that might've been an option on the web interface.)

@humanetech
@silmathoron @how @zap

Correct, we are also in touch with @mario who develops Hubzilla, which also relies on #Zot (we fund its transition to #zot6). We should indeed engage with these administrations in Germany, thanks for the suggestion.

@chris@tooting.ch C'est dommage qu'on ne puisse pas migrer entre #Zap et #hubzilla J'imagine que ça vient du fait que Hz utilise Zot4 et Zap #Zot6.
Peut-être qu'avec
l'implémentation de Zot6 dans HZ (prochaine version majeure, la 5), ça deviendra possible ? Sinon faudra développer un export / import😕

Quel protocole pour développer un réseau social très local ?
#zot6 vs #activitypub
#question #reflexion

@sean #Hubzilla 4 (currently in RC) is supposed to use #zot6 and yet still be compatible with #ActivityPub through the same ActivityPub addon...
And I still don't get what is the incompatibility (the lack of documentation doesn't help...)

A great explanation of nomadic identity concept and advantages over #ActivityPub here: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/216#issuecomment-395016112

But the same request with an osada account (supposed to be in #zot6) don't show any GUID...

#zot #hubzilla #osada

@gotexx @mike Merci :-) J'ai choisi #hubzilla parce qu'il est compatible avec #activitypub mais qu'il possède l'immense avantage d'avoir la fameuse identité nomade grâce à #zot6. Et pour moi c'est aussi important que la fédération ! ;-)