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I'm confused about identity in mastodon. Your identity is based on which server you use? So if you change server within the federation you are essentially a dif
by dorfsmay 9y ago
I'm confused about identity in mastodon. Your identity is based on which server you use? So if you change server within the federation you are essentially a different person?
- ProfessorLayton 9y agoThink of it like email identities, but applied to twitter john@ google dot com can be a different person than john@ yahoo dot com
- dorfsmay 9y agoBut if you owned @example.com, you could move alex@example.com from one server to the next.
- pfg 9y agoThat's accurate, yes. It's easy to import and export things like users you follow and blocks, but not timelines or your own followers (they'd have to refollow). There are efforts under way to change this[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15518277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15518277