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This kind of solution doesn't solve the problem for laypeople without the technical acumen to buy+manage domains. Which should be a concern for all the Mastodon/ActivityPub supporters who want to see federated solutions overtake centralized ones.

Additionally, DNS-based identity migration doesn't address the grandparent's real problem, which is that they feel expected to choose just a single community to live in in the first place. They want to live at the intersection or the union of multiple interests simultaneously, which doesn't fit the Mastodon model of social interaction (but does fit e.g., Twitter's).




If it's open, a market opportunity can popup to allow technically adept folks to pay a reasonable fee to manage it for them?

$20/yr/user ought to cover DNS, hosting, and operations for a 1-2 person team as a part time project? Esp once you get past 50 subscribers?


I keep forgetting about Fiverr. There’s a way to dip toes in. Could make a .com landing page that pushes interested parties to the Fiverr job page.


Account migration for non-technical users _is_ being worked on in fits and starts, afaik. It's just a complicated problem with a lot of potential rough edges.


It's finished for mastodon 3.0 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/




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