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do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you move you lose your history and relationships behind. There is no migration, same as Mastodon. On purpose so as not to disempower instance owners

[–] laxe@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works be nice if there was a way to verify that a user is the same one across Lemmy instances.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That is one of the main function of public key cryptography

You can append your digital signature to your messages and it becomes possible to confirm the same person made all the messages

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