A common complaint is #Mastodon admin suspended someone's account without warning. So, people lose many of their online connections.
This is the biggest flaw with Mastodon & the #fediverse in general (sure, it's much better than Twitter, etc....But?)
This problem could be solved by having our own unique (& anonymous if wanted) password protected fediverse ID.
So, adimin can kick you off their instance, but they can't delete your online conections.
So, online encrypted ID. Pros & cons?
@Empiricism_Reloaded That would require either a centralized place to store those accounts, or every admin to host a copy of all accounts. I don't think it works out either way.
Can the banned user export their Mastodon data and move to another server from there? That would ONLY work with Mastodon though....if it works at all.
The personal, password encrypted, ID, is a file that's stored on a persons home PC, Mobile, etc (not a centralised place nor fediverse admin instance). A "key" file.
The ID also consists of a persons conections ("followers ", "follows").
Generally, the ID (a persons personally password protected file) is a local file that is used so a person can ID themselves to their conections.
Completely possible using encryption.
@Valon_Blue @Empiricism_Reloaded There are still a number of issues with that. What if two servers both claim to be hosting that key? Which one takes precedence?
Also, say you get banned and migrate. How do your old connections re-connect? Are all servers scanning other servers for moved keys all the time?
@Empiricism_Reloaded Hmm, I hadn't thought about it like that. That could definitely work, as long as it doesn't rely on an auth server.