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As with any other service it depends whether your username has already been taken or not.
by yarrel 11y ago
As with any other service it depends whether your username has already been taken or not.
- akumpf 11y agoI ask because this is a major hurdle with the Diaspora* model, in my opinion. I just created two accounts with the same username on different servers to test, and the fact that I could do that bummed me out a bit... It's great that my data can be free, but if my account is tied to a specific host and I must make a separate, unique account with another host later then I'm still substantially locked in. Essentially, switching accounts likely means all my social connections will have out-of-date contact info, urls, etc. when I switch. If, however, my user ID is global across the distributed network and there is a way to gracefully transfer my account/data/info to another server seamlessly (without my social connections even knowing/caring about it) then I think distributed social networks like GNU Social could be a game changer.
- ApplaudPumice 11y agoIt's possible with hubzilla.io you can also have your account data on two different servers for redundancy.