had a lovely chat with @peternlimberg today and found myself talking about how i'm currently using alts on Twitter, thought i'd share here in case others are interested
in January I read @aaronzlewis's amazing post on ribbonfarm, Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter. highly recommend this post: ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/bei…
this year i had the intention to start a journaling habit. i made this easier on myself by making as many possible capture places as possible: a physical journal, digital journal... it was easy to add alts to that
i have four twitter accounts i use regularly right now: i have a main account (yours truly), a locked alt that is very private for close friends only, a locked alt that is just for me, and a public account that isn't tied to my name
unlike what AZL describes, alts as R&D, i'm mostly using these as progressive layers of disclosure. they all feel like me but i don't want to share all aspects of myself with everyone
with all of them I am trying to act and speak ethically. i have some rules for myself associated with that. i try to take into account who is reading what i write in which account and what possible impacts those could have
i foresee some of this bubbling up into more and more public levels of disclosure but that is slow going
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