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Right, the whole federation model is strictly flawed. The whole point of Twitter was it was YOU and the whole world. Having your profile held hostage by some "i
by auganov 6y ago
Right, the whole federation model is strictly flawed. The whole point of Twitter was it was YOU and the whole world. Having your profile held hostage by some "instance" doesn't make much sense. With email (it kind of) works because your emails aren't public. You don't need to worry about other people on the same server approving of you.
IMO federation took centralized social media's worst problem and made it worse!
- mikro2nd 6y agoMigrating your profile to another (Mastodon) instance is pretty quick and easy. Did it just the other day. So in what sense do you mean "held hostage"?
- auganov 6y agoI'm ignorant as to how that's done right now. So correct me if I'm wrong but: To "migrate" you basically want to have all your "followers" follow your new account. For obvious reasons you cannot just let people arbitrarily make others follow them. So the process must be mediated by the server(s). If your original server doesn't like you they can cut off your ability to "migrate". And on top of that any server that doesn't like you can just cease interacting with you regardless of whether your "followers" like you or not.