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FediTips might be more alarmist than most, but I agree with them. The concentration of activity on Mastodon.social is dangerous.
IMO the solution is to streamline signing up to different servers (or, and far better, implement nomadic identity!), not to continue to beef up Mastodon.social's infrastructure and draw more and more users there...
Is nomadic identity technically possible?
@V4uban @anji Hubzilla has had nomadic identity for ages
@V4uban @anji Yes, Hubzilla has it.
Couldn't you just download a file containing your follow and ban list and upload that to a new account?
You could, but that just moves the people you follow. Your followers would still follow the old account. Mastodon has a migration option which forces users to unfollow the old account and follow the new account. But nomadic identity would really free users from their username being tied to a particular server.