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I haven't checked in a while but isn't there some effort being put in to movable accounts?
Seems like a lot of the issues people have with multiple instances would be solved if your "account" was a public/private key pair that established ownership of votes, comments, and communities. Then it's not really tied to an instance. Or maybe I just imagined this concept.
This sounds like a moderation nightmare. Just create a troll account on one instance and now you can use it to login to every other instance and start spreading hate. When that instance bans you then you just move to the next instance? These instance admins don't even see your signup application, they can't stop you?
that's one of the plus points of using the fediverse I've heard? and I just did a quick google and at least mastodon software has that function.
Now that I'm here now, at least lemmy/mbin seem like it can't yet. kind of. lemmy does allow to export and import some settings to move around instances.
nucleative put 2 different ideas in their comment actually.
The first idea was moveable accounts, just transferring like Mastodon does, which still gives the instance admin a chance to decline or ban you.
The 2nd idea was the account working on all instances at any time by using public/private key encryption, this could cause issues with moderation.
I guess you could combine the ideas to require an explicit transfer, while still using the encryption keys to maintain ownership of old content in some way, maybe.
Lemmy's export/import settings isn't really that different from what Mastodon does, since you normally can't follow Lemmy users anyways, so there are no followers (or very few) to transfer.