> Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost. If you want a globally unique identifier, pay for i

> Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost. If you want a globally unique identifier, pay for it. I hate to be "that guy" but nobody owes you DNS namespace. If you are caught on the unfortunate end of this, Mastodon explicitly offers account migration tools to mitigate the pain. That will redirect your old account to your new one, so at least confused users will be able to find you in the interim. On the flip side, letting you use "somebody@gmail.com" as your ID just gives Google control over your identity, which I would consider a downgrade.