Few comments here mention that if you don't like your current provider you can easily switch - take your data with you. I think the problem of "not everyone wan

Few comments here mention that if you don't like your current provider you can easily switch - take your data with you. I think the problem of "not everyone wants to run things, everybody wants to use them" could be solved if we make our data fluid with something like IPFS (note: _something like_). What I mean is you can have data in multiple places a none is central one (discovery could be local, through friends and hubs etc. like SSB). You could have it on some federated server, on your local pc and if your provider misbehaves your data is still accesible from other places and moving it is no longer manual process where you have to click export, import etc. just login to other provider and that new service will pull your data from wherever it is accessible. I don't know if I am making any sense :D Please be forgiving. tl;dr; right now you address someone by nick@matrix.server or nick@mastodon.instance - we should be going in direction of adressing people using only _nick@service_ (or just _nick_) and dont care where the actual content is