Interesting feature came up yesterday. Being able to have your own domain, but move instances. Like email.
That way you can always keep your identity, even when instances disappear or become disagreeable.
Setting up your own is one way, but you would no longer have a local time line.
@webmind that makes hella sense
@webmind Instead of using a DNS record, could it conceivably also be done by defining a remote salmon/webfinger endpoint in one's domain's .well-known directory?
Don't know why?
Anything but an a record would be a lot harder to implement I think. As it's a http based protocol.
Hmm, a special dns record could work, but again more overhaul I think
@jboy doing it without an arecord would break the protocol I think.
@webmind I believe Hubzilla does this already? Discussed at length for Mastodon here and not yet resolved. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
Don't know if hubzilla does that, don't get the idea by skimming over.
But that initial suggestion is different from what I propose. Import/export would still be useful, but a seperate issue. Im talking about outsourcing part of the username bit to dns, like e-mail does it since the introduction of virtual hosts
Did not see it, sounds like different solution to similar problem
@david_ross if one would implement virtualhosts, farming of mastodon could become easier as well.
@webmind I think your global timeline wouldn't be very useful either, since it would just have content you follow anyway?
@webmind
On dns level could be done with a simple a record. Just the instance should accept multiple domains. A bit like virtualhost support on mail/web servers.