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This sounds like a fun gimmick, but it makes me more excited about the concept of Mastodon (GNU Social). I think this creates a really fun use case for federati
by orblivion 10y ago
This sounds like a fun gimmick, but it makes me more excited about the concept of Mastodon (GNU Social). I think this creates a really fun use case for federation. Hell I never thought of it before, but maybe now I'll want accounts on multiple servers now.
- rocky1138 10y agoOne of the constraints of GNU Social is that you shouldn't have two identical usernames on two separate instances. I did that and I don't know how to fix it. rocky1138@kwat.chat rocky1138@gnusocial.no Does Mastadon suffer the same problem?
- teleclimber 10y agoDo you have a reference for that? It seems hard for a federated system to enforce such a constraint. And what would be the use? that's what the @domain is for.
- franzpeterstein 10y agoMastodon have the same problem. > https://social.tchncs.de/@voidnill https://social.tchncs.de/@voidnill > https://mastodon.cloud/@voidnill https://mastodon.cloud/@voidnill are the same user (me) on two different instances.
- jobigoud 10y agoWhat do you mean by "problem"? Email has the same "problem".
- r3bl 10y agoMind elaborating what problems are you facing now?
- ghostDancer 10y agoYou can address them differently if you add the server like this @rocky1138@kwat.chat @rocky1138@gnusocial.no, at least on gnusocial
- teleclimber 10y agoFun yes, but it also points towards a future where you can have different flavors of a social network. There could be instances of Masto geared towards photography or visual art with large pictures, or geared towards sharing code, or geared towards any number of special needs. And all of them would be able to federate with each other. As it stands we're all stuck on the same Twitter and the same FB. It's so limiting. I hope Mastodon and its descendants pull through and give us this better future.
- feld 10y agoMastodon is not GNU Social.