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1. Silmathoron (silmathoron@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Apr-2022 21:23:09 UTC Silmathoron

   • Chris Trottier

   @atomicpoet
   I'm not sure I agree with the way you present this "instance down" issue... I don't see how it can be called FUD: instances going down or disappearing from the Fediverse happens *all the time*.
   Also admins can ban you and make you lose your account same a Twitter... Just because they usually don't do it doesn't mean the problem's been solved...
   AP and most Fedi devs did not address these issues, only Zot has nomadic identity that I know of.

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   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Apr-2022 21:35:01 UTC Chris Trottier

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     @silmathoron The Fediverse is obviously not perfect, but my point of comparison is Twitter.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Apr-2022 21:35:01 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Chris Trottier
     @atomicpoet @silmathoron I joined both fedi and twitter 14 years ago and I'm here on my seventh fedi instance because the others went away, but I'm still on my first Twitter instance. 😜
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Apr-2022 14:27:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Noch Nicht Hier
     • Chris Trottier
     @nnh @atomicpoet @silmathoron Yeah, owning a domain is not enough for rehosting if your host goes down, as people have noticed even when their own-managed host broke down, if they didn't have backups of the private keys.
   • Noch Nicht Hier (nnh@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Apr-2022 14:27:55 UTC Noch Nicht Hier

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
     • Chris Trottier
     @clacke @atomicpoet @silmathoron Servers being shut down is a nuisance, even if I've only lost two identities, I think.
     
     And this is where ActivityPub is worse than email: With email, if you own a domain, you own your identity. Can't do that with Mastodon, as far as I understand.