• FarceOfWill
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    But you can move to another server, you just can’t take old posts with you

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      You can always move to another server. That’s just the Web. As said, don’t like Twitter? Move to Facebook. You don’t need federation for that. Having to leave everything behind is the fundamental problem that federation fails to address.

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        As said, don’t like Twitter? Move to Facebook.

        Dumb analogy.

        I can move to another Mastodon instance, and keep following the same accounts.

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          I can move to another Mastodon instance, and keep following the same accounts.

          You can’t. What you can and can’t follow is determined by whatever the server federates with, which is not under your control. Also you lose all your followers and in case of server shutdown all the accounts on that server stop existing, so you can’t follow them either.

          Federation is a brittle framework that starts collapsing the moment anybody tries to use it seriously.

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        What do you think you are leaving behind? Your posts? Do you often go back and edit yours??

        You take your network with you which is what people want to bring.

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        All you’re arguing is that the web is decentralised, not that any given website within it is.