Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon
by kevingadd on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:23AM
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"pick any instance" ignores that you're potentially subjecting yourself to really bad moderation, future defederation/partitioning, having your friends' posts hidden from you, or even (in the worst case) not being able to migrate your account to another instance later
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Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon
by notpushkin on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:29AM
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Which would make sense for you later on, when you understand that bad moderation and defederation exist here. Once you understand how it works, then you can migrate to a better server if desired.
> not being able to migrate your account to another instance later
I've never encountered this yet. Not even heard of it. I assume this only happens if your instance defederates itself from the rest of the network?