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Most {{Internal | Most {{Internal link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}} {{Internal link |target=What are Fediverse projects? |link-name=projects}} only offer one identity per user account. | ||
{{Internal | {{Internal link |target=What is Hubzilla? |link-name=Hubzilla}} and its latest successor commonly referred to as {{Internal link |target=What is (streams)? |link-name=(streams)}} go further than this: An account can contain one or multiple independent ''channels''. Each one of these channels can be compared to one {{Internal link |target=What is Friendica? |link-name=Friendica}} account with variable roles and access permission settings. | ||
== Channels as separate identities == | == Channels as separate identities == | ||
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Similar to Friendica, both Hubzilla and (streams) also have multiple profiles per channel. But these different profiles only serve to show different aspects of the same identity to specific users. For example, you may have only basic information about yourself in your default public profile, a separate profile for your work colleagues, another separate profile for your close friends etc. But it's still the same identity, and different profiles can't conceal that. | Similar to Friendica, both Hubzilla and (streams) also have multiple profiles per channel. But these different profiles only serve to show different aspects of the same identity to specific users. For example, you may have only basic information about yourself in your default public profile, a separate profile for your work colleagues, another separate profile for your close friends etc. But it's still the same identity, and different profiles can't conceal that. | ||
Another ''channel'', in contrast, is actually another fully separate identity, much like having another account on e.g. {{Internal | Another ''channel'', in contrast, is actually another fully separate identity, much like having another account on e.g. {{Internal link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}}. Other users can't tell which channels belong to the same account because the account underneath the channels doesn't identify itself anywhere, only the channels do. Thus, it is not necessary to have multiple accounts on the same server to maintain multiple separate online identities. | ||
Each channel has its own separate profile(s), its own separate settings, its own separate posts, its own separate content altogether and its own connections. Other users can't follow your whole account, only the channels on it individually. The only common settings for all channels are those for the account itself. | Each channel has its own separate profile(s), its own separate settings, its own separate posts, its own separate content altogether and its own connections. Other users can't follow your whole account, only the channels on it individually. The only common settings for all channels are those for the account itself. | ||
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== Channels and nomadic identity == | == Channels and nomadic identity == | ||
The multiple-channels-per-account model has another advantage: It greatly facilitated the introduction of {{Internal | The multiple-channels-per-account model has another advantage: It greatly facilitated the introduction of {{Internal link |target=What is nomadic identity? |link-name=nomadic identity}}. A channel basically puts your identity into a "container". What nomadic identity does is copy the whole container with everything in it, posts, settings, connections, files etc., to another account on another server. The clone can optionally be automatically kept in sync with the original, i.e. whatever happens on the original is automatically mirrored to the clone and vice versa. At the same time, the clone keeps the ID of the original. It would be a lot more difficult to pry certain data directly from one account, copy it directly to another account, keep it in sync and keep the copied data on the second account assigned to the ID of the first account. | ||
By the way, each channel on an account can be cloned independently from the other channels. You don't have to clone all your channels to the same backup account. In fact, you don't have to clone all your channels at once. And you can have uncloned channels, main instances of cloned channels and/or clones of channels with main instances elsewhere on the same account. | By the way, each channel on an account can be cloned independently from the other channels. You don't have to clone all your channels to the same backup account. In fact, you don't have to clone all your channels at once. And you can have uncloned channels, main instances of cloned channels and/or clones of channels with main instances elsewhere on the same account. | ||