Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt
- fastest-land-animal
- cheetah
Just this guy, you know?
Joined Nov 2022
@pee_zombie
No urgent need for local-only posts, but very curious about the theory behind Mastodon Federalism. It seems like servers are expected to make some culture and content decisions, but it doesn't matter if the VAST majority of value is cross-server.
Lack of local-only posts (and in fact, if the local-first theory were true, it should be the default) just made me question my understanding of the intent.
Even more confusing about the distinction between local-server-culture-is-a-thing and local-servers-are-just-another-federation-endpoint: there doesn't seem to be any way to set "local" visibility for a toot.
Sorry for those of you not on my server, but was it down earlier today? I couldn't connect this morning, but don't know if it was on my side. Is there a status page or indicator I can check if it happens again?
@niplav
Thanks!
In what sense is a backup account an actual backup (that is, what outages or losses does it let you recover from)? Does one normally mirror all follows between the main and the backup account? Tell private correspondents to use the backup if the primary fails?
In other words, what's the benefit of having a backup in advance of my primary server crashing or otherwise losing access, vs just creating a new account after it's needed?
Still trying to understand the federation model of identity around here. Is it expected to have multiple accounts on different servers, so "local" messages for that community are discoverable? Or is it possible to follow a server, rather than individuals?
Is my identity portable in any way? I can "migrate" to another server, but it doesn't seem to cryptographically authenticate to make it transparent to followers (or follows that require acceptance).
- fastest-land-animal
- cheetah
Just this guy, you know?
Joined Nov 2022
