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Except they frequently do, because you don't own the domain your mastodon identity is tied to. There's promising work in this area, but as yet none of the majo
by danielheath 6y ago
Except they frequently do, because you don't own the domain your mastodon identity is tied to.
There's promising work in this area, but as yet none of the major implementations support separating 'hosting' from 'identity' the way (eg) email has for at least 20 years (probably longer, I wasn't there).
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- curtainsforus 6y agoHow does email do this? If someone's email address is jim@website.com, isn't their identity tied to that domain name?
- callahad 6y agoI suspect parent is referring to how actual service backing an email address can transparently change from Gmail to Hey to Fastmail and so on. The hosting is separate from the identity.
- danielheath 6y agoYes - on mastodon, plemora and others you cannot use your own domain with a shared host.