Anil DashBleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸@anildash @blogdiva The solve for this is supposed to be account portability between instances, but without a way to move your posts, boosts, faves, etc., well, portability isn't real. It's a gaping hole that would solve many of the in failures in the utopia we were sold.
I'd imagine that for many reasons, this isn't an easy feature to create. Security issues alone seem insurmountable. But it's sorely needed to prevent top-down abuses of power, and just generally, users being at the mercy of a single instance admin.
Paul Fuxjaeger