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@nanoha I don't leave my social network (!GNUsocial) to communicate privately with people I have gotten to know here. Nor do I find it troublesome to use another piece of software (some !XMPP client) in parallell that is awesome and streamlined for private communication.
In fact, this distinction is great for usability and understandability. Also for privacy, security and organisation of communication.
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@nanoha Private accounts (or instances) on !GNUsocial effectively disable federation. It just has to be clear to the user what you're missing out on (the clarity thing is something !GNUsocial doesn't live up to and I've been meaning to simply disable any option for "private stream" or "private post" and require explicit administrator interaction to even be able to enable it).
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@nanoha People still have to choose which communication client to use to participate in discussion with people they know. Some are on network A, some on network B etc. It's not like you stop communicating with people because they're using a different service than you, right? If it is, that's not a person I want to communicate with at all anyhow.