Obviously everyone's worried about instances disappearing and losing accounts and such.
The council of admins idea would also help there...provide admin resilience, not just diversity.
So, council of n exists. Continually changing by one member each day who vote on community stuff.
Original admin (sadly) loses life, but community can keep going because the council is taking care of things.
Of course, without original admin, bills won't be paid, no physical access to HW, etc..
cont.
@orielle Yes, we've been discussing this. Worst case scenario, your instance implodes and you migrate to another instance, start over with same nick and emoji
@futuretro @orielle You might want to add "followers" and "following" to that list.
@dredmorbius @orielle just start over. I'm sure they will find @user eventually
If following did some kind of public/private key verification thing, then it would allow identities to be verified regardless of account and instance. That coupled with the existing ability to export your info, could make setting up a new account and re-following result in the software noticing the identity is actually the same as the old one and automatically following back if it used to be the case...
and make migration trivial...
@futuretro @dredmorbius Well, I'm just thinking out loud really. I don't know how this stuff works, as it's not really my wheelhouse.
(I'm a software engineer specialising in 3D/geometry/lowlevel/optimisation most of my career, but doing general indie games stuff these days...unprofitably!)
@orielle @dredmorbius believe me, many of us have contemplated that question of "life after mastodon"
@orielle @dredmorbius Please get in touch with Eugen and let him know!