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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
like, what i'm talking about is that it shouldn't even be something i think about to walk my account over to another instance. i lose nothing. I can come back tomorrow if i don't like it. i can make a full backup of my shit and put it wherever i want. if a given program doesn't support some feature, who cares, i have the backups, and i could have the same identity represented on multiple programs and bridge them. the specs for this are mostly there, this isn't a pipe dream in the slightest. the biggest barrier is the masto implementation.
once the "move away" is possible, then the implementation question looks very different for new software, where it's actually attractive and possible to have people wander in and out of your new greenfield project, rather than the threshold for writing new AP software being "convince people to gamble their whole identity on you, irrevocably."