well that's all true, but what scares me on the fediverse is also that same power. People share unverified blocks. What you see in society also happens here, if you're not in the right box you're defederated.

Whilst that's not a too large problem *now* it does create small islands. And that's everyone's right! And also a good thing! But it's also a thin line for polarisation and something to always keep in mind.

Luckily we also have great personal tools (mute, block, etc) to help.

That's why I run an account at @FediGarden and website at fedi.garden highlighting the best smaller instances.

And it's not quite as bad as you're implying with that statistic:

fedidb.org/network

On top of that, people can move their Fediverse accounts elsewhere without losing their followers or leaving the network. If the worst happens they have an escape route. This isn't possible outside the Fediverse.

Website League also exists - the key difference is that instances have to be approved by the League administration to be part of the overall network, rather than Mastodon operating on server-to-server blocks.

In short it's a confederation model as opposed to Mastodon's federation model.

The *only* place?

/me's feelings of having been a user of NNTP, IRC, SILC, XMPP and more over the previous decades are hurt.

Another decentralized network is XMPP. I've been running an OpenFire server for ever and will never use signal.

Decentralize your life!!! 😁

@allenstenhaus @FediGarden

Is there any way to move without leaving duplicate accounts on the previous server?

I'm not sure what you mean by duplicate?

The old account redirects people to the new account, as do the old posts.

You can move to any account, it doesn't have to look the same or have the same name as the old account.

The problem is that its trickiness is precisely what keeps most people away from the fediverse. You'd be surprised how much people are willing to throwaway their freedom and accept enshittification for the sake of the ease.

And the fediverse is not immune to enshittification, most of the existing instances are currently owned by cryptobros nazis.

@EcksDy I get the impression they may not want to leave traces of themselves on their current insurance. Moving their account does. Creating a new account, manually moving followers, but not using the "move account" option allows them to delete their account altogether without leaving a trace behind.

I strongly suspect personal privacy is the motivator for this.

If you don't want to leave any traces, you just delete the old account.

"Creating a new account, manually moving followers"

You can't manually move followers (people who follow you). You have to move your account to move your followers. It works like this because otherwise spammers etc could use it to falsely claim followers and spam people's timelines.

@allenstenhaus @EcksDy

Can you move your account, then request that the tombstone record be deleted from the old server?

@DXMacGuffin @allenstenhaus @EcksDy

If you want to keep old account but remove redirect:

1. Log into old account on your old server's website, this will take you to Account settings.

2. Scroll down to "move to a different account", click on link

3. Click on "cancel redirect" at top. This will reactivate your old account.

If you want to delete your old account:

1. Log into old account on old server's website.

2. Scroll down to Delete Account, click the link and follow instructions.

@allenstenhaus @EcksDy

Ah, sorry, apologies!

@nellie_m @allenstenhaus @EcksDy

Yes, you can delete your old account if you want to leave no traces. It would be much harder for people to find your new account, but if this is what you want that's totally doable.

@allenstenhaus @EcksDy

but once you’ve done that, you could delete your old account without a trace if you wanted, no?