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I've never set up accounts for my games here. I have on Twitter, but Mastodon always felt like it was a place for people rather than "brands."

If I was running my own instance (which is a long term goal, but not something I have time/resources for at the moment), I think it'd make sense to offer feeds for each of my projects.

Is this something that my followers here would want sooner rather than later?

@kazriko Oh, that's definitely planned, but won't be happening any time soon. The question I was asking is whether people want feeds for my games before then.

@Cheeseness I think hashtags have much more discoverability than accounts. One big account attracts more followers, and followers give you good federation of posts.

A group of smaller accounts won't even reach the global feed until someone follows them from this instance. Federation relays do help but don't solve this completely, and not every instance uses them.

You can also reblog posts across the accounts to cross-pollinate them but then what's the point of keeping them separate?

@oreolek This echoes some of my feelings, but I have had a couple of comments from people who're interested in seeing a subset of my stuff in their feeds.

Discoverability isn't really important to me - this is more about allowing people who're interested in my work to tailor what they're seeing (hashtags don't seem like they quite fit that use-case).

There's also potentially some value to me in having room to more explicitly separate my personal identity from my various work contexts.

@greypilgrim @kazriko I think there's an important distinction between a developer sharing stuff and things that are explicitly packaged as "news."

I'm definitely focused on the former (which stuff can be curated out of to become news) rather than the latter.

@greypilgrim @kazriko I think it's also important to think about what is centralised and why.

An instance for a community of people focused on curating news is probably good.

An instance for press orgs, maybe less so since they are likely to have their own communities that may or may not mesh well?

@kazriko @greypilgrim Something like the gamemaking.social instance?