> I think it's far more likely that any of the publicly available Mastodon instances goes boom long before Twitter does
as long as the admins give a heads-up, you can still move to another instance using the provided feature. If the instance spontaneously combusts, you're a bit out of luck, yes :(
That is true, yes. But then there's the fact that my identity is tied to that instance. All of my followers would have to go through the trouble of refollowing me on another instance, and that is only if I'm able to tell them that the instance I'm currently on is about to go bye-bye.
I stand corrected. I'd still rather have my own personal handle that I could point to any given Mastodon account (kind of like how email aliases work) but it's absolutely better than nothing.
IIRC you can move your account across instances and keep your followers, but the likelihood of that working successfully depends on the software running on your followers' instances.
as long as the admins give a heads-up, you can still move to another instance using the provided feature. If the instance spontaneously combusts, you're a bit out of luck, yes :(
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration