I’m looking into Takahe and it seems that it’s getting very close to solve this. With takahe, you can use the same instance to serve multiple domains. So you could signup to a Takahe instance and bring your own identity. If you are not happy with the server, you just move to a different service and get your domain to point to the new server.
Notes from a Mastodon migration
Submitted 1 year ago by rglullis@communick.news to fediverse@lemmy.world
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rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you are not happy with the server, you just move to a different service and get your domain to point to the new server.
I’m just learning about takahe now, but it very much looks like domains are the remit of server admins, not users. Setting up a domain appears to require admin-privileges on the computer running takahe, not something that an individual user or non-admin group of users can do. So it seems to me that takahe doesn’t facilitate users controlling domains and improving mobility of domains between different servers controlled by different admins, but rather appears to be a tool for a given admin-team to segment their users and move them around among the group of servers they control.
I could very much be missing something here, this doesn’t seem to be a scalable approach to server mobility or a way to extricate yourself from an admin team you’re in conflict with.
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
Setting up a domain appears to require admin-privileges on the computer running takahe
A takahe admin can not take the identity hostage. An admin can add any domain, but if that domain does not respond to the webfinger query pointing to the actual underlying domain, it will never matter. So at the end of the day what matter is how that domain responds to a webfinger query.
teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 1 year ago
This is a big part on why I think self hosting is the way to go with federated platforms. At least I probably shouldn’t ever have an issue with the admins/moderators at lemmy.teuto.icu. Being able to just point the domain name somewhere else should make migrating as simple as spinning up a new container too.
camelCaseGuy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is actually something that I’ve been thinking about Lemmy too. Now Lemmy.World is a good instance, but if I ever need to move, I’ll lose a lot, and that’s not what Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole should stand for. We need to allow users to migrate to another instance as a whole. Not just the name, but the messages, posts, replies, everything should be repointed to the new user.
Of course, this brings new and interesting attack vectors on instances for DSoS and for users data. Identity theft would be a real bitch.