RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180

Some really great updates in Mastodon's latest Trunk & Tidbits blog post, including, from the W3C Social Web working group notes, a note on LOLA, a "proposal for live online account portability between two ActivityPub servers".

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola
https://fediforum.org/2024-09/session/3-a/

#mastodon #fediverse #TrunkAndTidbits #LOLA #AccountPortability

Matrix's statement on the recent Discord announcement and recent challenges with age verification…

https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/

Account portability would be a great thing. Mastodon's portability isn't perfect, it has some notable limitations, but it's nice you can at least take a number of things with you across servers as your needs dictate.

People need to be able to move around. No system should be a prison, and platforms where we can move if we need to are exactly what the world needs right now.

#Matrix #AgeVerification #Discord #AccountPortability

Account Portability and Cryptographic Signing

https://piefed.social/post/1119179

"I love seeing people like BlueSky try things with AT Protocol where it has true account portability across servers ..."

#RyanBarrett, 2024

https://flipboard.video/w/2Jj46hJaUQQG5TuiBYi9TR

Well ... not really. It solves the problem by getting rid of independent servers. Replacing them with portable account islands ("PDS"), that are totally dependent on a connection with a Titter-scale platform ("Relay" + "AppView") to do anything.

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#fediverse #AccountPortability #BlueSky

Composable moderation is one of the things ATProto/BlueSky gets right, along with account portability between data stores. I wonder how much of this can be added to fediverse software using the Zot creator's FEPs? Which I assume are being implemented in his new project called Forte;

https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte

#fediverse #ComposableModeration #ATProto #BlueSky #AccountPortability #Zot #FEP #Forte

here's a somewhat neat idea - you know how the #fediverse has this idea of the "Move" activity, the one that gets sent out to announce you're moving to a different server when you do an acct migration?
...wouldn't it be neat if - upon receiving such a "Move" activity - the receiving server just,, automatically started displaying all of the posts it has from your old account, right on your new account?

you don't even need to copy or modify all the old activities or anything!! just keep some kind of "account migration history" or something like that! and then - when queried by a client for the statuses of an account - just return all known posts of all of the accounts in that history!

it's not quite a full migration of your data, but it's kinda?? better than nothing?? it's basically what #nostr is doing, too, afaik.

it's not entirely my idea, it's kind of a half-assed compromise of what @/[email protected] proposed in their blog post: https://www.nova-prime.net/social%20media/2024/07/22/mastodon-immortal.html
still, though!! might try to see if I could add something like that into akkoma, maybe!!

#activitypub #accountportability #accountmigration

Правильно ли я понимаю, что основной минус #ActivityPub в том что он обречён быть маленьким, ведь если допустить, что какая-нибудь Ким Кардашьян заглянет в какой-либо инстанс, приведя с собой миллионы активных "фоловеров", то сервак упадёт...

следующий минус, в невозможности переноса своих данных и приходится копировать себя, оставляя заметку о неактивности прежнего акаунта

#AccountPortability
#Fediverse #Bluesky #AT #ATProto #ATProtocol