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Do you get decision paralysis when deciding what home to buy or what apartment to live in? This is what freedom looks like, vs going to a defacto centralized m

• ISL 4y ago
  When you move because you don't like the instance anymore, how do all of your connections follow you? This, to me, is the central problem in the Fediverse.
  • M2Ys4U 4y ago
    > When you move because you don't like the instance anymore, how do all of your connections follow you? You use the built-in[0] migration feature. Create an account on your new instance, point it at your old one. Then point your old account to your new one. [0] Built in to Mastodon, anyway. YMMV with other Fediverse software.
    • ISL 4y ago
      And if the instance-administrator on the old account decides they don't like you and drops the account or points it to /dev/null?
      • lrvick 4y ago
        That risk exists at everything you do not host yourself on the internet.
        • ISL 4y ago
          The risk is very small for email when you own your own domain. One can switch "instances" at will with just a DNS update.
          • lrvick 4y ago
            You can do this with Mastodon too. Point a domain at one of many managed mastodon services or host your own.
• shadowgovt 4y ago
  > Do you get decision paralysis when deciding what home to buy or what apartment to live in? Yes, of course. That involves a mortgage, location, the logistics of moving...
• jrmg 4y ago
  Do you get decision paralysis when deciding what home to buy or what apartment to live in? Yes! Doesn’t everyone to some degree? That’s a huge decision that takes me days to decide. Just make a choice, and you can make a different one later. If we’re going with a housing analogy, this is pretty terrible advice. But I don’t think the housing analogy really applies. Where someone lives says (in my mind) a lot less about them - but is also a much more important personal decision. You’ve implied a few times in this thread that complaints about Mastodon are because people are somehow accustomed to being told what to do by corporations. That is quite hyperbolic, and I also don’t really think it’s true. I don’t see how caring about what a public choice appears to say about me has anything to do with that.
  • clnq 4y ago
    Decisions can be big but still easily reversible. And it makes sense to not hesitate with those, I think. That is indeed something I've applied to buying an apartment in the past. I bought an apartment and ended up not liking it too much, so I sold it and bought a different one a few years later. Now I'm thinking about selling it again and buying something in a different part of the world. I don't see why making a choice and making a different one later is bad advice here. Of course, there are choices that are difficult to reverse. Then some hesitation makes sense in my opinion.
    • lrvick 4y ago
      Exactly. Think hard about marriage or a tattoo. A mastodon server? Who has time to stress about that. Pick anything and pick another one later.
      • shadowgovt 4y ago
        That would be easier, of course, if your name followed you. Mastodon could probably use a directory service independent of the network service.
        • lrvick 4y ago