Dave Rahardja · @drahardja
1577 followers · 6244 posts · Server sfba.socialOnce in a while I #hunches about a software system that keeps nagging at me and over time it becomes clearer why it’s been bothering me.
Tonight’s moment of clarity is that there is a fundamental problem with the #Fediverse, and it is that SERVERS CONTINUE TO OWN MY IDENTITY ON THE NETWORK. They may not be *commercial* servers, but they are still *someone else’s computers* over which I have little control.
Moving between servers is a high-friction activity: I lose all my posts and all my friends. Sure, I can reimport those lists in my new home, but my friends would have to rely on a forwarding note I left in my previous server to find me. I sure hope that old server won’t block my friends or go out of service, because then they’ll never find me.
