I'm still stuck on the idea of how to share my account between instances.
If each instance was an oauth provider, some kind of cross-instance account sync could be done. Could get your avatar, your follow list, and maybe your followed list?
Is it desirable to follow someone in a new instance automatically, just because you follow them in an old instance?
I tend to think so, but I'm really not sure
@monknomo You don't have to be on serveral instance though.
I think Ostatus supported OpenID, but I dunno about Mastodon.
You can follow people on other instances from right here. :)
@maloki I realize that I can follow people from other instances here.
I'm trying to work through the benefits of federation vs the pains.
Benefits:
* Can join instances with different focuses or codes of conduct
* Can change instances when one falls over
* Can keep tooting as long as someone is hosting
Pains
* Finding people cross-instances is hard-ish
* Can't really change instances without a loss
* Can't really be the same user on multiple instances
@maloki Maybe I'm not doing it right, but it doesn't seem as easy as I want.
And I have exported my follows and followed my tweeps and read introductions and followed interesting people on the federated timeline and so on and so forth.
That's all pretty manual and pretty technical stuff. "Easy" but not "easy", you know?
I'd like my computer to do that kind of work for me, insofar as it is possible
Monknomo
maloki