Natanji ‏(old account) @natanji@awoo.space

@zigg That's dangerous, though. Imagine that is built into the protocol. Then by sending just one such toot, you can completely take over an account + its followers when you get your hands on someone's computer for a brief second. Not compatible with 2FA either.

I'm just a bit more pessimistic about what you can do with protocols without fucking up badly. Again, federation is hard. ^^

@spatz_@mastodon.social It just means we're on a different server than you. Like I'm on awoo.space and you are on matasdon.social, but we can still talk to each other. :)

This is like the best thing about Mastodon: Nazis are banned. <3 https://mastodon.social/users/KonomiKitten/updates/1629522

@GinnyMcQueen@mastodon.social So you're saying cat people don't hate dogs, but dog people? :D

I for one sometimes wondered if it's a dom/sub thing.

@lilybunny Nice! I for one don't like thise whole idea of "queer" being a certain style. Any look can be queer af. :)

@baala You register a new account there. You can't move your account over or anything.

@zigg But how do you intend to make it so you can no longer post from the old account? Remember, every user can run their own mastodon instance. They 100% control it, and could just keep posting.

Things just get immensely more difficult in a federated scenario where you can't enforce rules except by clever protocol design. And you can't make posting from an account impossible after it was active once.

Do server admins have to actively choose which other servers they federate with, or can toots be distributed over the network really? Like let's say A federates with B and C, but B and C don't directly federate, do toots from B reach C over A?

@fj In what way can forgery happen? Can you elaborate on that? The way I understood it, another server could make another account called @natanji, but it would be natanji@someother.server and this would clearly be shown when the toot is distributed in the network?

@adr QRM QSL? What is that?

@zigg It does seem like a rather difficult problem, so many questions pop up. For instance, the user probably wants to keep following the old account since they still wanna view the old toots. But now you need to implement something that has the effect of "any user I follow can make me follow any new account of theirs". Which could be abused to make you follows hundreds of accounts.

@apexys Uuuund sofort ein Ohrwurm. ^^

@zigg In my profile settings, there is an "export" and "import" feature for your own follows.

Bringing followers along: don't think that can technically work. You'd basically force your followers to follow some other account, which isn't compatible with how Mastodon is supposed to work.

I can see a "recommended follows" feature, maybe? But user choice about every single follow needs to stay.

@bishnu Usually not, but right now federation seems kind of broken. Exciting times!

@verge Waitwhat, is this an official Verge account from you on this small instance here? :O