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There is an account migration feature. If you create a new account on a different instance, you can migrate the old account to the new one. This basically send

There is an account migration feature. If you create a new account on a different instance, you can migrate the old account to the new one. This basically sends messages to your followers instructing them to follow your new account instead. This is all transparent to both you and your followers.

olah_1 7y ago
That is not the same as moving your old account to a new instance. If your old server actually dies, your old account data is just gone. And if it dies before you get a chance to migrate, then you're really out of luck. I just don't understand why people feel such a strong desire to cling to the federated servers model when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...
- progval 7y ago
  > when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already... which ones are you thinking of?
  - olah_1 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801
  - thulecitizen 7y ago
    http://developer.holochain.org http://developer.holochain.org http://dat.foundation http://dat.foundation http://scuttlebutt.nz http://scuttlebutt.nz
- lokedhs 7y ago
  The original question to which I replied were not talking about the case where the server goes offline. If Facebook were to go offline, you'll have the same problem, only worse. As for your final remark, I really can't see a good way to handle such a situation at all. And I've never heard about any protocol that can handle it. What protocol are you talking about?
  - olah_1 7y ago
    > What protocol are you talking about? Any social tools built on top of a decentralized database would do it. - https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db (3Box) - https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun (Iris) - https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ (Manyverse, Planetary)

olah_1 7y ago

That is not the same as moving your old account to a new instance. If your old server actually dies, your old account data is just gone. And if it dies before you get a chance to migrate, then you're really out of luck. I just don't understand why people feel such a strong desire to cling to the federated servers model when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...

progval 7y ago
> when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already... which ones are you thinking of?
- olah_1 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801
- thulecitizen 7y ago
  http://developer.holochain.org http://developer.holochain.org http://dat.foundation http://dat.foundation http://scuttlebutt.nz http://scuttlebutt.nz
lokedhs 7y ago
The original question to which I replied were not talking about the case where the server goes offline. If Facebook were to go offline, you'll have the same problem, only worse. As for your final remark, I really can't see a good way to handle such a situation at all. And I've never heard about any protocol that can handle it. What protocol are you talking about?
- olah_1 7y ago
  > What protocol are you talking about? Any social tools built on top of a decentralized database would do it. - https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db (3Box) - https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun (Iris) - https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ (Manyverse, Planetary)