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[–] aeharding@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's true, but it's not an inherent limitation of ActivityPub.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it?

Your ID, along with the canonical data associated with it, is tied to your instance. That's how the protocol works. There's no mechanism for decoupling all that.

Mastodon has a half-hearted migration feature.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nomadic accounts are currently not supported by ActivityPub

Good to see there's at least a proposal though.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Any service can implement this today, with activitypub. Being an enhancement proposal is just an attempt to standardize extensions to ActivityPub, lots of the time that services have already implemented.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But it is an inherent feature of ATProtocol

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I think about this often, but I wouldn't consider ActivityPub a settled on standard just yet...