I don't feel that comfortable with Mastodon's decentralised concept. While the servers are decentralised accounts are tied to one server.
Who's behind a server, how commited they are to continue their service: Nobody knows. (Except for mastodon.social itself.)
With server-specific accounts, one's in the hands of the admins: When they decide to stop, the accounts' accumulated social capital is gone.
I'd love to have accounts you can migrate from one server to another without losing connections.
@fxneumann This is a really good point, and it's kept me thinking as well. It's peculiar when you cannot guarantee the longevity of your profile unless you register to another instance. Will be curious to see what comes out of this all.
@turumore I wonder why all the fancy buzzwords you hear all the time like cryptography and blockchain don't seem to be considered to ensure persistence of user accounts.
