I had a bath and thought bout mastodon and after I go cut up some broccoli I'm gonna come back and drop some thoughts on this here social networking service

okay SOOOOO my concern right now is how much I can tie my real life events into posts here. It's not that I worry about the crowd here figuring out who I am, it's that I don't want people googling on my interests and putting 2 + 2 together. I want to have posts that deal clearly with what I'm doing, but I do specific things! If mastodon was unindexed by Google I'd be so much happier (and I am thinking all-powerful search really destroys the fun of exploration & browsing anyways).

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@eddie Good point, but it's not a Mastodon-exclusive problem. I realize you're also saying it's definitely a problem, but not one Mastodon tries to solve. The privacy thing in particular is brought up as something possibly worse than Twitter, due to the open nature of the system.

@Mycroft oh yeah, it's totally not a mastodon-only problem! I'm trying to straddle two worlds here and that's just a difficulty. I certainly won't be as kinky here as I am on AD twitter, I'm not going to trust mastodon with a pic of my butt.

@eddie Keeping worlds separate is a game I've been playing for decades. Generally, I don't think my legal name is publicly associated with this identity anywhere. Privately a few places I'm sure, when I mixed things I needed my legal name for with my (then only) email address. I've been blessed with not having over-sharing friends who blow my cover by tagging me on photos. So far.

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