@asklemmy@lemmy.world At what point do you feel something should have it’s own account?
(e.g. Business, Project or Idea)
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
