4 ms·
You can move your account to a new instance, but only if your current instance is cooperative. There's no app lockin, I can switch from the official webui to pi
by easrng 5y ago
You can move your account to a new instance, but only if your current instance is cooperative. There's no app lockin, I can switch from the official webui to pinafore.social to tusky and back and it doesn't change anything, they're just different UIs for the Mastodon API.
- mulmen 5y agoFor the Mastodon API but not the Fediverse, right? Can I post a vacation photo to the Fediverse and have it visible to my followers on the Instagram-alike and the Twitter-alike?
- 3np 5y agoAP is a bit underspecified in terms of semantics, but yes, that is both the intention and (in absence of bugs or mismatch) reality. IME yes, so far I haven't experienced issues federating across implementations listed on fediverse.party and when they have come up in the past, devs and maintainers tend to treat it as bugs and want solve it.