@jupiter_rowland @fredbrooker ActivityPub is quite flexible, and nomadic identity is possible there as well. Nobody needs a permission from W3C to implement it.
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silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 05:19:54 JST silverpill -
Jupiter Rowland (jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 05:19:56 JST Jupiter Rowland @Fred Brooker It's there. It has been in productive use for longer than Mastodon. So why abandon it in favour of more well-known but inferior technology?
Besides, many other Mastodon users who have heard about it say, yes, we need it. Ask people on mastodon.lol.
If witter.cz should disappear for good without a notice, you're fucked. Your account is locked in on that instance. Have fun starting over from scratch.
Even if witter.cz should announce its shutdown, you can only take so much with you as you move to another instance. You lose all your toots, you lose all your uploaded media, you lose all your followers, at least the one-sided followers whom you don't follow back.
I already have a clone of my channel. If hub.netzgemeinde.eu should go under, I can shrug it off and make the clone my new main without losing anything. And I can make more clones.
However, I can't see nomadic identity come to Mastodon anytime soon. ActivityPub won't introduce it because the W3C committee steering its development has disbanded, and nobody is maintaining it anymore. And Mastodon can't easily be ported to Zot or Nomad.
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