A long-term, publicly-visible identity is THE KEY FEATURE of Twitter, I think. I've put a lot of work into mine… About to lose that? 29/
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Replying to @Meaningness
To invest serious effort in a social network identity, you should believe that it will still exist years from now. How? 30/
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Replying to @Meaningness
YOU SHOULD OWN your network identity! You can't entrust it to Facebook (evil!) or Twitter (collapsing?) or Mastodon (collapsing!). 31/
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Replying to @Meaningness
I think it's possible to move your account between different GNU Social/Diaspora instances. Don't know about Mastodon <--> Social.
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Replying to @aophona
Uh… pretty sure not possible? Would be interested if you can find something explaining that it is!
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Replying to @Meaningness
Looks like it's stuck in development hell. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/908 …
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It's possible on Friendica, however. http://librelist.com/browser//friendica/2013/11/14/questions-regarding-profile-migration/#df0253306abf6c27b555164a6f506e48 …
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Replying to @aophona
Looks like Red Matrix was a fork of Friendica that promptly died. So, not possible in Friendica either, afaict…
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Replying to @Meaningness
Redmatrix was trying to address the possibility of the account *itself* being distributed.
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You can download your profile and upload it on another server (no backups if the server goes down, though.) https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/master/doc/Move-Account.md …
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Ah, this is getting closer! Thanks! Doesn’t actually update pointers, but at least informs everyone:pic.twitter.com/u71iYATybv
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