It looks like some issues may arise if/when an instance’s domain name changes. Is there any way we can change federation so that we don’t need to rely on such a central point of failure?
It looks like some issues may arise if/when an instance’s domain name changes. Is there any way we can change federation so that we don’t need to rely on such a central point of failure?
Hypothetically an instance could federate an activity telling all other instances about it’s new domain name.
But once we get post, community and user migration working there will be much less need for it - everyone could just move themselves.
I still don’t understand how this is not akin to falsifying data. If we normalize servers copying data from other instances and just rewriting the URL, there is little in the way for malicious actors to create piefed instances to scam others pretending to be someone they are not.