@asklemmy@lemmy.world At what point do you feel something should have it’s own account?
(e.g. Business, Project or Idea)
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
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.
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.
Yes I’m mainly talking about a general Fediverse account through Mastodon, PixelFed or another system.
My concern is obviously if a project is slow developing it might be weeks before you see another post and it just looks like another idea or project that someone just dropped if there’s not frequent posts.
I would say go ahead and make a separate account if it’s here on the fediverse and it’s important to you that progress remains trackable and organized. A vast majority of accounts and communities here have very little content. Even if you’re posting very infrequently, the community here is small enough that people who are interested will see and remember the previous ones.
A small thing that I think would help mitigate the “abandoned project” look is putting the date in the title of your updates. The post will obviously have a timestamp on it that shows how old the post is (ie “posted 4 weeks ago”), but seeing [December 2024 Update] at the top of a profile feels much more reassuring that something is being worked on, and also makes it easier for anyone scrolling through the account to a. get an idea of how much things are being worked on, and b. navigate through the project history.
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)
Pixelfed is a product. It’s a platform tool for people to use. It wouldn’t make sense if it was called Daniel.
If your project has a name, use it’s name. If you want to have a place that’s not just on your pc for the project, then create an account for it.
Where is the border between a Project and something that is now a Product then?
When it’s useful? I don’t know. I feel like that’s something you would 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/canada@lemmy.ca shows up like this on Mastodon.social but IMO the UX isn’t great…
