There was a typo in my mail, sorry, it is mastodon.cloud with an “o” not an “a.”
I am finding it challenging to find answers to simple questions by searching, so trial and error so far.
These don’t seem to be routable e-mail addresses, at least upon my testing so far, which does not surprise me. Have any of you found otherwise? Thus I find it unfortunate that the handles look like e-mail addresses. So I wonder if steveo@mastadon is sufficient to share with others?
When I login to mastodon.cloud and do a search on any of your handles they turn up due to the federated aspect, and so far I am gathering that handles are unique across all instances - so I am and will be the only @steveo. Is this right?
Looking at a few instances at random and viewing “about this instance” I see some things I find not optimal:
- federation whitelists vary by instance
- each instance has its own policies as to what they deem acceptable, thus if I register with an instance they may at any time censor or delete my account at their whim, apparently. Also I see some that claim that although they are providing the service free and covering hosting costs, they reserve the right to come back later and try to raise $. I wonder if this could extend to deciding later to charge for accounts, leaving account-holders in a bad position.
I know these are very early days and I am approaching this as an experiment.
Thanks-
Steve
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Steve Olshansky
Internet Technology Program Manager
Internet Society
www.internetsociety.org
On 13 Apr 2017, at 17:44, John Philpin wrote:
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