What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
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What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
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What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
reiver@mastodon.social wait was there more or was this just a slightly warm take
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I will write something up more later.
Perhaps with UI-mockups of what I feel could be better account move experience.
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(I just moved 3 old accounts to somewhere else. So I just experienced the flow three times.)
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I will write something up more later.
Perhaps with UI-mockups of what I feel could be better account move experience.
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(I just moved 3 old accounts to somewhere else. So I just experienced the flow three times.)
Right now you have to log into both the new account, and the old account.
In new account you add an alias to the old account. (It is a bit of a hunt to find this in the UI if you don't know where it is.)
In the old account you put in the new account to migrate to. (It is also a bit of a hunt to find this in the UI if you don't know where it is.)
And, you also download a bunch of stuff from the old account.
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Right now you have to log into both the new account, and the old account.
In new account you add an alias to the old account. (It is a bit of a hunt to find this in the UI if you don't know where it is.)
In the old account you put in the new account to migrate to. (It is also a bit of a hunt to find this in the UI if you don't know where it is.)
And, you also download a bunch of stuff from the old account.
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I think a better user-experience could maybe involve logging into the old server with the new server.
And there being a "hand held" experience.
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What is involved in moving your account from one server to another seems much, much more difficult than it should be.
What if you didn't need to move your account from server to server? What if you had your account on a "personal" server and all the fediverse applications talked to that?
More on this in my up-coming talk (I talked about this at FediForum), I just need to record the video for the talk.
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thisismissem I feel like this can be extended to utilising accounts on separate services (e.g. posting to a NodeBB from a Mastodon account)... Having a separate PDS-like store for account data is a nice to have but the underlying tech should apply...
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julian right, if we decouple your account & identity from the software you use, perhaps that'll unlock new interesting things — no longer would building an AP app be that you have to build the complexity of S2S and handle storing everything. Like NodeBB could not include an AP S2S implementation and just use C2S APIs
