So I guess I need to accept the idea of having a browser window with nothing but tabs for all my different Mastodon accounts.
@stueytheround I think you missed my point. I have no issue with coso. I don’t like have 20 different mastodon accounts on 20 different instances. It’s the “feature” that I argued was a bug last year starting to play out.
@seanbonner If you use a Mac, there’s an alternative: Site-Specific Browsers via the Fluid app. An SSB is a dedicated web browser designed to wrap up one particular web site in its own window on your desktop, rather than mixing it in with everything else.
If it’s Windows, then I have no idea.
@peemee @seanbonner Basic tabbed browsing would do the job in any web browser, right? Yeah it's a couple of extra clicks.
PSA there is also no crossposting to/from twitter. That is a doxxing reduction measure.
@stueytheround @seanbonner Depends how for you take the number of tabs, it’s possible (theoretically) to overload the system and lose the session.
@seanbonner I have two proper Mastodon instances (with federation operational) plus #CoSo, each in its own site specific browser. Prior to learning about Fluid 2 (beta) I used the Epichrome app to set up Chrome-based SSBs.
The Epichrome arrangement needs at least six steps to set up, Fluid only two. In addition, the Application Support for an Epichrome SSB is far more resource-hungry than Fluid SSBs.
@peemee Just installed Fluid, but I need a separate app for each instance? That seems more convoluted than tabs on a browser. Trying to simplify...
@seanbonner That’s how it works, did you get Fluid or Fluid 2 (beta)? The latter is more reliable. I keep them all in a folder on the dock.
@peemee I guess I just don't understand the value of a different app for every single instance over a single browser window with tabs.
@seanbonner The value lies in that ALL the resources of the web browser are confined to that single website, whereas with tabs it’s possible to crash the browser if it gets hung up on one particular site.
It helps to think of the individual SSBs as apps.
I guess I’m pretty familiar with them, having used Fluid in various iterations for at leasr ten years.
@peemee I see. I use "the great suspender" so that only the current tab is pulling anything, all the rest are paused so that's never an issue.
@seanbonner Can you tell me more of “the great suspender?”
@seanbonner Sadly yes. There was a lot of drama on Twitter from Mastodon admins because J improved the security here from reactive to proactive.
They started telling other admins to block #coso because obviously J is racist right?
And so we forked from federation which does make it inconvenient for people with multiple Madtodon accts.
But if you're ok adding extra columns, hopefully it'll work out nicely for you.