Questions for @Gargron:
1) what if someone grabs your nick in another instance? That's err, inconvenient…
2) I noticed the @nick@instance notation is visible for non-same instance nicks, that's good but does not solve 1),
3) perhaps the instance should be made explicit?
Further questions for @Gargron:
4) can nicks be migrated between instances?
5) you mentioned "en passant" keybase: can we push to auth "the real cynicalsecurity" via keybase?
1) Same deal as if someone grabs [email protected] when you use gmail (Every user is @some.instance)
2/3) I agree, but making that not look terrible is kind of tricky if you want the full instance name (icons might work, but UI's still hard)
4) Not really. There's Export/Import, but no account-redirect. OStatus doesn't have migration stuff. See: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
5) Ehhhhhh. That makes federation weird, and centralizes stuff.
cynicalsecurity ->@bsd.network
Na