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 You can do about the same thing with a single-user Mastodon instance right now. It would be cool if you could do it with other server software: make a backup from your 1-user Masto, and restore it to your 1-user Calckey. Change the DNS, and it just works. 14 comments
@kissane all of which is to say: 1) We should be encouraging people to get their own domain early in the onboarding process. 2) Fediverse software should support bringing your own domain. Takahē does it; others should follow suit. 3) Fediverse software should support both Webfinger accounts (user@domain.example) and DNS hostname accounts (user.domain.example). That way, everyone gets a domain name, free, right away, but somewhat less under their own control. @kissane I know that domains have their weaknesses as a root of identity on the Web and the social web. They've also proved remarkably resilient over the last 30+ years of civilian Internet. There are some other identity systems, like DIDs, that can supplement DNS, but right now, owning a domain is the best way to control your internet identity.  @evan I’d love it if cosocial allows me to use my own domain. I guess we wouldn’t be a community then though? @emd @evan I highly recommend @mastohost I’d you want a painless way of self hosting and using your own domain. My server is almost single user (I mean I have like 4 friends on it) because there was no way I’d have my main account on a domain I don’t control, just like email. @g @evan @mastohost ya I thought about that but wanted to join a community, and one that is member supported (my instance is a co-op model). But I’d love to own my own identity on here. @emd @evan Normally, I’d be on @jerry’s awesome instance, but I wanted to control my domain. I interact with people from that instance non stop, I don’t feel like I’m less part of the community. I guess some features are a bit pointless though like if I look at all my local server posts etc and it’s tumbleweeds  @g @emd @evan @mastohost the problem is, afaik you can't import your data (posts, etc.) that way, though. At least I didn't see it as an option.  @evan @kissane I’ve long been under the impression that if you use a domain once it basically gets burned because of the public key caching that happens across the fediverse and that you can’t then spin up another instance on the same domain. I do have the advantage of having been able to move my self-hosted instance between hosts without data loss and minimal downtime though. |
Gregory's Server
@kissane this is, obviously, how Blue Sky data portability works. Everyone gets a DNS name for their identity. And they move around as needed.