> What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will yo

> What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? no, you just move your account to a different server. with reddit you’re at the mercy of the mods closing a sub down or locking down. same with discord. with mastodon we just move our account—when you move, you keep the same followers/following so in the very rare occurrence something like this happens, it’s a minimal disruption with an easy solution. moving even redirects to your new account, so if someone has your old address, mastodon just directs them straight to where you moved to—god i wish email would do this.