this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In principal yes, but requiring people to handle private keys would be a nightmare! Imo what we can and should do is support for transferring accounts between instances, including posts and comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the account itself is like a property/attribute of a post/comment, then I suppose it can be changed seamlessly. But i dont think it is designed to be that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Afaik right now you'd have to send an update for every post/comment individually, if it would even work. I think we need one simple ActivityPub message that simply means "this actor is now this other actor, and all its objects should be updated".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The former can be the underlying level simply.