Federation is as easy to migrate an email, but moving from one email account to another isn’t seamless. There is even more of a sunken cost as the database is public facing and can’t be move across instances like an email archive can be.
And the purpose of federation isn’t the ability to switch accounts freely, it isn’t built into the system. The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.
The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.
But that’s just it - when these different groups betray us we are enabled by federation to move to a different server. In this case, the admins failed the vetting process.
If your email service started doing shit you didn’t like, such as forcing you to deal with spam email instead of blocking it, then you’d move to a different service.
But what if your email did shit like that every year? Or now you have to switch messaging with a group of friends and some don’t want to jump to a certain new app?
Find an email service that doesn’t do shit like that every year.
.world has always been bad, this isn’t an example of “every single server is bad and they’ll all do bad things every year and so you should just accept that the service will always be bad and always get worse.” There are actually good servers. They exist.
The admins made their new policy very clear and people have already expressed their outrage about it. The discussion is kind of over.
Yeah, and the end result may be that a lot of subs leave. However, I would try other things first.
And I wouldn’t. Federation is supposed to make it easy to migrate. That was the whole point.
I guess we just disagree about the purpose of federation.
Federation is as easy to migrate an email, but moving from one email account to another isn’t seamless. There is even more of a sunken cost as the database is public facing and can’t be move across instances like an email archive can be.
And the purpose of federation isn’t the ability to switch accounts freely, it isn’t built into the system. The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.
But that’s just it - when these different groups betray us we are enabled by federation to move to a different server. In this case, the admins failed the vetting process.
But who changes their email every year?
If your email service started doing shit you didn’t like, such as forcing you to deal with spam email instead of blocking it, then you’d move to a different service.
But what if your email did shit like that every year? Or now you have to switch messaging with a group of friends and some don’t want to jump to a certain new app?
Find an email service that doesn’t do shit like that every year.
.world has always been bad, this isn’t an example of “every single server is bad and they’ll all do bad things every year and so you should just accept that the service will always be bad and always get worse.” There are actually good servers. They exist.