mccDec 5, 2018

Okay so tumblr is banning rotating cubes saying it's porn and facebook banned saying "i'm gay" saying it's sexual solicitation and Twitter always seemed like it could disappear at any moment

I feel like we need to be getting ready for Mass Migration to Mastodon, which means we need to fix anything that keeps Mastodon from being usable, and there is in fact something that keeps Mastodon from being usable, there's one specific thing, it's this:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177

Support account migration · Issue #177 · tootsuite/mastodon

A lot of people seem to be jumping on https://mastodon.social right now, even though the end goal is to have users separated out across multiple federated instances. However, if people start puttin...

Show threadmccDec 5, 2018
The lack of an account migration idiom on Mastodon really is fatal, it is sincerely a thing that keeps me from recommending Mastodon to people. The http://witches.town evaporation to me was kind of like a disproof of the fediverse and I feel like maybe the fediverse dev community should have treated it as such. There needs to be a way to recover your account, "toots", and follower network if one instance goes away.

Show threadAcute AccentDec 5, 2018
@mcc also many of the proposed solutions depend on backing up and restoring, while a cool robust thing would be replication without visible duplication, so I could have my toots and relationships on mastodon.social AND toots.passcod.name or whatnot and if one goes down the other is still there.
Show threadmattbkDec 6, 2018

@passcod @mcc this is essentially torrents, right? When you need the data, someone has it.

If privacy is an issue, opt-in then.

Show threadAcute Accent
@mattbk nnno, specifically not. (privacy should not be opt-in!). I mean, you could do something like that, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Dec 6, 2018 at 2:09amWeb
Show threadmattbkDec 6, 2018
@passcod I meant you would opt in to such a decentralized automatic backup.