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>>ZacnyL+(OP)
Meanwhile, I can see this very Mastadon post with no login just fine.

And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick.

...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.

>>brucet+1k
Early days of Twitter were just like that. Mastodon hasn't had the time to go to shit yet.

>>pronik+Wr
The point of it is that it isn't a company but a standard, so if one instance owner goes crazy and patches ads in you can move to another (or your own) and keep your network

>>Macha+Rt
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to it. Wouldn’t you have the same problem as with an email address? I mean, your handle or whatever it is called would still point to that instance/owner right? Or is there some kind of “DNS” or registry so you can move your handle to other instances?

>>0xblin+xv
Assuming the old instance doesn't just totally shut down, you can trigger a "move" process that makes your followers automatically re-follow your new address.

On top of that, you can host your own webfinger alias, as sibling suggests, which lets you have an unchanging address that forwards to your current server. But note that accounts follows URI's not the handles, so you still need the move process to migrate existing followers.

It's not by any means perfect, but it's improving (e.g. the move process is relatively new) and probably will keep improving.