@xabean@jerry@kuoirad@lerg Ooh.. maybe we can build a perpetual lerg machine.. Some sort of contraption tweaked such that it constantly creates more lergs but culls the herd at a constant rate as well…
@tinker@jerry Though from what I understand, if the instance defederated with everyone else suddenly, migration wouldn't be automatic or easy. It requires your "from" server to host your redirect pointers for a while for all the rest of the fediverse to learn where to point people to. So you'd end up rebuilding your social graph from scratch again.
@jerry@tinker I've been beating the drum that the fediverse needs a way to decouple a user's identity from their instance for several months now. Something like an mx record or a webfinger, such that they can update their "home instance" pointer to a new instance if/when they need to, and all of their followers could pick up the redirect even in the case of adversarial home instance admin behavior. Obviously you'd still lose your post history etc., but you wouldn't lose your social graph so long as your webfinger stayed around.
@JessTheUnstill@tinker@hrefna I like the idea, though I am not sure the fediverse as it is would be compatible - still probably worth doing. Also note that when this has been floated before, it's largely been met with people putting their fingers in their ears and screaming "you're trying to centralize the fediverse!!!" which possibly could be resolved, particularly if people had the chance to stay on a current style instance.
I mean, for any of these ideas, it's not like the identity service has to be centralized or monolithic - just decoupled. Presumably identity services would be under less pressure to moderate or ban users since they're merely hosting a pointer, not having any particular control over anyone's content.
Add comment