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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
Yes. This IMO is one of the 3 key issues with federation as it is now:

1. Noone understand what "federation" is so they all flock to the big servers hence making the majority of the system totally non-federated in nature

2. Findability (of users, topics, servers) is terrible which pushes people to 1)

3. What you said. Until there's such a thing as federated identity, we're all still tied to one server, thus one server owner can ban / switch off / over-moderate and we're all back to square one

Some of this can be solved with ux and education but I worry that some of it is basically baked in to federation.

Edit: yeh I mean in theory you can move servers but it's apparently not easy...!