Activitypub accounts are portable actually. Lemmy is not as slick as Mastodon with this feature yet but will likely get there.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 week ago
Suppose the fediverse becomes widely used. At some point, people will figure out how to profit from it. Although it is a decentralized platform, I can see particular instances becoming dominant and walling off other instances.
How can we prevent users from being stuck behind walled gardens like this? Is it possible to make accounts portable, so if a particular instance becomes unusable one could easily move between them?
Corgana@startrek.website 1 week ago
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Accounts are already mostly portable (you can easily export all your settings and import into your new account), you just don’t retain posting history.
To retain that… I guess there could be a separate fediverse service that does nothing but allow registering accounts that let you prove that other fediverse accounts all belong to the same person, and then a PR can be made to e.g. Lemmy to honor these links when showing posting history. It’d be quite a messy system.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 week ago
There could be a user-centric back end that you could tie in to an account, if it matters. You would export your history to the backend and then log in to the data from the new frontend. That prevents a denial of service caused by numerous large data collections attempting to forward their data all at once.
That then causes me to wonder if data could be hosted separate from the services. That would mean that there would have to be individuals willing to provide that storage and bandwidth.
ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Meta have already tried, and in an almost unanimous move, users of the fediverse decided to defederate from them to not give them the opportunity to.
Of course they’ll keep trying, but the whole point of decentralisation is that if or when that happens, those who don’t want anything to do with it, just move on to a virtual space away from the corporation.
Sure, it sucks to always be “on the run”, but at least here we can be, vs on a centralised network, where the corporations control 100% of it and we as users have no viable alternative.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The other thing I can see happening is the EU investing in infrastructure, and then leaning more heavily into how things are conducted in the Fediverse. Right to be forgotten? Applies to all instances that want to federate with EU ones. Someone says something bad about the leader of Turkiye? Their instance is defederated if it doesn’t take it down.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 week ago
Defederated from instances that federate with and support Turkish laws? I don’t like it, but it makes sense.
That makes me wonder if it is possible to federate with a and b, who are not federated, and not pass traffic between.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
If it isn’t, it really should be, or things will become a mess as the fediverse becomes more political. It needs to be resistant to that sort of thing as well as corporate control.
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The answer is obvious: we must forever be completely advertiser-unfriendly and absolutely unmarketable. With every piece of porn, every post on digital piracy, every swearword, we do our part to protect the fediverse’s independence.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 week ago
Have you ever seen the advertisements on the pirate bay? There is a market for everything.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 week ago
THIS GAME WILL MAKE YOU CUM IN 30 SECONDS!
I hope not mate, I’m on the bus.
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I haven’t, actually, since I normally use an adblocker (and also don’t use that tracker). Looks like they’re all VPN advertisements right now, which is at least a somewhat non-mainstream ad segment.
SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Fuck shit dammit sex
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Methamphetamine fuelled masturbation.