Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by culi on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:08AM (#34078741)

But Mastodon is specifically built against that. Users can freely migrate their accounts and all posts are still accessible on other instances (up to a point). The whole point of Mastodon is that users and their content have "exit".

If Mozilla does some weird shit with their instance, people can just... use a different instance. That's kinda the point. And Mozilla's instance will surely take the Mastodon Server Covenant which, among other things, requires users be notified at least 3 months ahead of time before a server gets shut down

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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by fanso99 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:57PM (#34100061)

You are misunderstanding federalization. People can migrate their account and social graph to a different instance _only_ if the current instance allows them to do that. If you are banned from Mozilla.social - you can't migrate. The instance owns you.

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