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Decisions can be big but still easily reversible. And it makes sense to not hesitate with those, I think.

That is indeed something I've applied to buying an apartment in the past. I bought an apartment and ended up not liking it too much, so I sold it and bought a different one a few years later. Now I'm thinking about selling it again and buying something in a different part of the world. I don't see why making a choice and making a different one later is bad advice here.

Of course, there are choices that are difficult to reverse. Then some hesitation makes sense in my opinion.



Exactly. Think hard about marriage or a tattoo. A mastodon server? Who has time to stress about that. Pick anything and pick another one later.


That would be easier, of course, if your name followed you.

Mastodon could probably use a directory service independent of the network service.


When you move mastodon servers your followers and follows go with you to your new username so yous name kind of does follow you.

It is a bit like snail mail forwarding address.

I agree a directory server is probably a good call. It proved to be useful in Matrix.




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