Emile SnyderOK, so, I guess "federated" doesn't actually mean "can easily move my account from one instance to another" yet? :( https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
✨rachel ✨@esnyder that would be a cool feature if user names were centralized, but it looks like you can have a mastodon.social/@username and mastodon.xyz/@username.
@ohhoe I'm just learning about Mastadon, so pardon me if I say something dumb, but I don't care so much about having a centralized username, as much as not having to duplicate work to maintain a social network in multiple places.
Like right now, I'm mostly going around trying to find people that I followed on twitter, and following them here. For the most part, I don't care what instance they have their account on.
@esnyder true. the non-centralized aspect to it would definitely make the finding the same people from twitter difficult.
Though, I believe that federations can include other federations so you can see tweets from people on all the instances as long as the owners opt in?
@ohhoe Yeah, I'm not so worried about the "how can I find everyone again" question per se, more the, "is this platform actually going to mean my social network investment is robust against instance turnover" question.