I really don't like the idea of topic-specific instances being the standard way to handle group discussions in Mastodon. I don't want to juggle 15 different identities and 15 different sets of credentials just because I'm interested in 15 different things. Early adopters may put up with that kind of hassle, but a mass audience never will. And having to set up and maintain a whole instance just to host a group means that few groups will ever be formed.
I feel like there has to be a better way.
@jalefkowit it's up to each person to buy in this concept and split his/her/? identity over multiple topics of interest and instances.
I know the concept and ignore it, because it is free for each of us to be a multiple interested person on a single instance and follow persons of interest on whatever instance they may be located.
The problem I see are the more self isolated instances, blocking or silencing others with larger number of persons on them ...
