The Fediverse is better than regular social media

Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by luto on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:27AM (#25821080)

> I think it's far more likely that any of the publicly available Mastodon instances goes boom long before Twitter does

as long as the admins give a heads-up, you can still move to another instance using the provided feature. If the instance spontaneously combusts, you're a bit out of luck, yes :(

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by tuukkao on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:32AM (#25821130)

That is true, yes. But then there's the fact that my identity is tied to that instance. All of my followers would have to go through the trouble of refollowing me on another instance, and that is only if I'm able to tell them that the instance I'm currently on is about to go bye-bye.

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by jlkuester7 on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:03AM (#25821864)

For awhile now, the Mastodon account migration process has supported automatically updating your followers to point to your new account: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by tuukkao on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:41AM (#25822199)

I stand corrected. I'd still rather have my own personal handle that I could point to any given Mastodon account (kind of like how email aliases work) but it's absolutely better than nothing.

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by grishka on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:50AM (#25821728)

IIRC you can move your account across instances and keep your followers, but the likelihood of that working successfully depends on the software running on your followers' instances.

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