I like browsing Local here because of that.

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    2 months ago

    You know what you’re getting into when you go in (a programming forum),

    Are you sure about that? [picture with non-programming topics]

    Notice that your picture is set to All, which gives you all the communities people on programming.dev subscribe to so naturally it will not be restricted to just programming topics, because as you mentioned, a lot of people use one Lemmy account for a lot of different interests. Setting to Local will give you only the communities hosted here, all of which are programming-related. I browse by Local here and my feed is gloriously full of programming to the exclusion of all else. I feed my other interests on other accounts, which leads to…

    that you use one account to talk to your friends from school and another to talk with your friends from the swimming club and another to send pictures to people you went camping last summer.

    For my real life identity, I am definitely more on one account. But for talking to strangers online, my approach is a lot closer to one-thing-per-account. And because of that…

    perhaps more people will be interested in using the dozen topic-based instances that I created last year.

    What are they? I might sign up.