Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
I think most of those sorts of issues would be solved if you could easily move servers (taking your account and posts). Technically it should be possible to do, just not possible right now.
What would it look like (technically)? Even mastodon has not solves this issue, they use a redirect to point an old account at the new but I’m not sure if there is much more than that.
I believe Firefish lets you do it? I think the basic idea is that since every server can (potentially) have a copy of every post, it’s just a matter of ensuring all your posts are available on your new server, and linking those posts to your new account. You may lost the ability to edit them, but there would at least be a record of them.
That is my understanding anyway, but I’m sure I’ve seen people who know more a lot more than I do saying it’s technically possible (although may be quite difficult to implement in practice).
You’d have to federate the change out to other servers, editing the original author to be the new account. You’d need all the different activitypub platforms to support this otherwise different sites would show different info.
And it needs to originate from the original server as you couldn’t trust a new server claiming it’s you.
I’d guess it’s doable within a single platform, but federating out to other platforms seems tricky. That’s probably good enough though you’d need it to fail gracefully in situations it doesn’t work.
It depends on the goal. If you just want to have a record of all your old posts, then it’s just a matter of making sure there’s a copy on your new server and associating them with your account. You don’t even have to federate the change necessarily. If you want to change the ownership of all the original posts, that’s a lot harder and may not be possible. There’s a separate a issue of what happens when a server disappears, but that has a whole lot of related issues, like communities disappearing, which are a problem. But if we assume it’s just about a user wanting to move from one server to another when the old server is not shutting down, it becomes a bit simpler.
Yes, which shouldn’t be a problem if the old server isn’t shutting down.
I think this sums it up 😆. Some things are easy, some may be hard, others may not be possible.
Yep!
I guess I don’t see why people need to maintain full ownership of their posts. I guess you might want to edit it, but do you really need to do that for posts a few years old?