At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?

  • If you move you lose your history and relationships behind. There is no migration, same as Mastodon. On purpose so as not to disempower instance owners

    • @laxe@lemmy.ca
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      42 years ago

      It works be nice if there was a way to verify that a user is the same one across Lemmy instances.

      • That is one of the main function of public key cryptography

        You can append your digital signature to your messages and it becomes possible to confirm the same person made all the messages

    • Wintermute
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      42 years ago

      Is there some backing for the idea that it’s intentional? There’s not technical reason that we couldn’t implement migrations.

      • It’s an open source project. Anybody can fork it and create a separate and incompatible network. What they’re is, is lack of interest in allowing frictionless for the users. Which would streamline onboarding.

        https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423

        This long standing issue, which has been closed before, most be completed before the users can sign-up without worry what their instance owners thinks.