Deebster

Alan Schaaf created Imgur while he was at uni and he never worked for Reddit, but I believe it was made for Reddit primarily (Reddit didn’t support uploading images until 2016).

Reddit hardly came up with that thermometer-style fundraising display; it’s older then the internet.

Yeah, I wasn’t arguing, just thinking out loud too. I think the whole decentralised aspect of the fediverse means that ownership has to have a cryptographic answer because there’s no central source of truth that everyone can agree on.

I think moving accounts is a little easier than you think, apart from who gets to say that something should move. It’d be better to have a “pull” than something like the “push” solution that currently exists on Mastodon - there you can forward an account to a new place, as long as the old instance exists and cooperates (big ifs).

I’m mostly thinking about moving accounts (+ communities) in the case of when an instance suddenly vanishes.

Posts and comments have a canonical URL (i.e. the original submission’s URL that’s linked to via the Fediverse pentagram), so that can be used as a foreign key when comparing.

I think identify claiming would need to have been designed into the original spec with something like a public/private key for account ownership to allow moving of related data in a safe way, or e.g. editing a post from a different instance than originally posted it.

I’m really glad they don’t! There’s so many ways to ask for a link to open in a new tab, but it’s much harder to make links open in the same tab once target=_blank is set.

And no upvotes, because it’s obviously a stupid, unworkable idea.

What are your new predictions, oh time wizard?