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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • Exactly my point, you’re tied to a specific server for your account regardless. There’s no shared federated user info that can be recovered if that happens. One solution is to make your own instance where your account lives, and then it’s just up to you to make sure it doesn’t get lost in a crash without a backup. But that’s more complex than the average user is willing to take on.


  • Same here. It still has the limitation of being instance-based though, so if you decide to move to another server or our existing instance shuts down, you can’t take your account stuff with you (like when I had to move from Kbin and “lost” the first few months). Which may never be possible given the design of federation. I recall the question came up pretty early when people were concerned about picking the “right” instance without any knowledge of anything, and some were throwing around ideas of a way to pass along user history from one account to another…but I don’t know the state of that.













  • And such news doesn’t seem to be hitting mainstream, or at least I’ve missed some of it. Pandemic level stuff is so 2020 and not click worthy maybe.

    If other animals like vultures get to the dead geese first

    My mind always goes to the “what ifs”, and reading that my first thought past more spread was…what happens when a natural system of carrion breakdown loses part of its mechanism? Dead animals will still decay, but not as fast and complete without the help, and diseases can come from rotting corpses that just sit.