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My main issue with Mastodon is that your identity is tied to whatever instance you signed up with. So if I sign up at example.social I will be bob@example.socia
by drexlspivey 4y ago
My main issue with Mastodon is that your identity is tied to whatever instance you signed up with. So if I sign up at example.social I will be bob@example.social. If the moderators ban me or the instance stops working I am losing all my tweets and followers.
Ideally you would sign up with your own domain (bob@mydomain.com) and point some dns records to whichever instance you want, this way you stay flexible and you own your identity.
There is a github issue for this that is open for 5 years but not much has been done https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668
- aliqot 4y agomost federated projects work this way because of the homeserver model
- luxcem 4y agoIdentity is always an issue in a decentralized systems. DNS can be used but not everybody owns a domain name. Ultimately if you want to keep your identity over a federated network you have to rely on an identity provider : Government issued, centralized platform that act as Id Provider (facebook, github, google, etc). I'm not aware of decentralized provider, maybe in a blockchain, there are a lot of writings on the topic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1084804520302058 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10848...
- betwixthewires 4y agoWell there's nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr It solves this problem of being tied to a domain.
- kornhole 4y agoIt is actually very easy to move your identity along with follows and followers from one Mastodon instance to another. I did it a couple times to finally land on my own instance I have running on a Raspberry PI.