On: Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules

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I prefer the approach taken by nostr[1] and Scuttlebutt[2], where identity is a public key not tied to any particular server. However Mastodon is gaining a lot more traction and seems to be good enough in practice.

1. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

2. https://scuttlebutt.nz/