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You can be certain that regardless what happens with Mastodon, the network will live on and flourish. Newer and better software will be born within
by TekMol 8y ago
You can be certain that regardless what happens
with Mastodon, the network will live on and
flourish. Newer and better software will be born
within this ecosystem, but you will never have to
drag all your friends and followers someplace
else again–they’ll already be where they need to
be.
What is a 'friend' here? A follower?
If mastodon.social is shut down tomorrow, a user - say joe@mastodon.social - would lose all his followers, no?
First of all the followers that were on mastodon.social too - their data is gone just like Joes data.
And the ones not on mastodon.social - yes, they would still exist. But Joe would have to make a new account somewhere else and ask each and every one to follow him again. And he would have no proof that he is the same joe that they knew under the account joe@mastodon.social.
Or am I missing something? Is there some public key that is Joes real identity and only he knows the private key?
- QualityReboot 8y agoCould I have me@mydomain be accepted by mastodon.social somehow? Similar to how I point my MX records to Gmail?
- deft 8y agoNot right now and maybe not ever. People have been asking for an account migration tool for quite awhile.
- detaro 8y agoIf you install an ActivityPub compatible software, or if someone starts to offer one with custom domain support as a service. Account discovery most commonly is done with a HTTP request in /.well-known/, but the application that points to doesn't have to be at the same domain.
- type0 8y ago> And the ones not on mastodon.social - yes, they would still exist. But Joe would have to make a new account somewhere else and ask each and every one to follow him again. But it's the same with gmail and everything else like that, I don't see it being a problem of ActivityPub or Mastodon. There's keybase or having your own domain with some index.html where you can direct your followers to a new account is not that big of a deal nowdays. If having to host it somewhere is too much for you - use dot tel tld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel). People that really want to read your ramblings will find you anyway.