Fediverse is such a poor design. It's utterly futile.<p>The ID is tied to a host, so every time you lose your host, there's a lot of work to do, because you don't own your account - your host do. You basically have to start from scratch every time, so what's the point? Better to use Twitter, at least there's some chance they will not dissapear out of the blue.<p>Identities should be self-generated, and independent of any hosting. Fediverse hosting should just facilitate passing stuff when peers are offline. Then it wouldn't matter if you're on one server or other, because it wouldn't be even visible in the UI.<p><a href="https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork</a> had some more interesting ideas, but AFAIK execution was rather poor.
Mastodon is a difficult one. The decentralisation of users runs contrary to the natural predisposition people have toward following the crowd.<p>As the writer puts it, people need to use other instances, but (myself included as a guilty mastodon.social user) the comfort of being on the bigger boat draws people in since they think it’ll be the last to sink.