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> You can choose your masters, and you can choose another master (and they can choose to get rid of you) at any time. That's only if your federated protocol su
by southerntofu 5y ago
> You can choose your masters, and you can choose another master (and they can choose to get rid of you) at any time.
That's only if your federated protocol supports account migrations (usually with some form of crypto-identity). This was pioneered as part of the Hubzilla ecosystem and ZOT protocol. Nowadays there are efforts to port this approach to ActivityPub/XMPP/Matrix, we'll see where that goes!
Of course it's all easier if everyone owns their domain name and you can migrate "transparently". But the tooling for giving away free, pseudonymous domains is limited so far (afraid.org, netlib.re, eu.org..).