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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.
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 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.
{{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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== Channels and nomadic identity ==
== Channels and nomadic identity ==


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.
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.