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> Can someone explain why a Mastodon account is so intrinsically tied to the instance it was registered on? There's no central server, and not all of the insta
by Kamq 4y ago
> Can someone explain why a Mastodon account is so intrinsically tied to the instance it was registered on?
There's no central server, and not all of the instances talk to each other.
Where... where would you put the account data?
- HellsMaddy 4y agoI imagine it working similarly to IPFS, where the data is distributed across the network.
- semanticist 4y agoThink of it as more like email. You have an account on a specific server, but can send or receive emails from anyone on any server.
- Kamq 4y agoThere's not one network with mastodon. Depending on which node you start in, you can get different graphs (from what I remember, mostly due to differences in value between valuing free speech vs preventing hate speech).
- dezren39 4y agoYa'll are describing SSB protocol and ManyVerse.
- HellsMaddy 4y agoI just looked into SSB and I really like the concept. It seems much more elegant than Mastodon. Why is Mastodon/the Fediverse so much more popular (or is it?)? What are the advantages of federation over total decentralization? I suppose one disadvantage of total decentralization is the need for ‘fat clients’, as another commenter pointed out.
- xigoi 4y agoAs you can see with Twitter, more popular doesn't mean better.
- ReactiveJelly 4y agoThere's a way to do this, but it requires fat clients https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE