Mastodon, but with accounts stored in a distributed way accross all instances. You wouldn't «sign up» on a particular instance, your account would exist in the fediverse. You'd simply log in from one instance. Or from another. They'd be all just gates proposing a particular «view» of the federated timeline.
@koyu Why ? That'd be awesome to use, the confusing question for beginners of multiple accounts on multiple instances (or the «which instance ?» problem) would simply cease to have a meaning. You wouldn't fear the incident taking your instance offline when you really needed to contact that person, you wouldn't fear anyone seizing the servers.
I'm not saying I want to think about how one would implement such a thing and still retain a tiny bit of privacy, just saying I'd find it way simpler and handy.
@Sasha i understand, that this is good for new users, who haven't touched any fediverse stuff yet, but that would defeat the reason of mastodon. sure it could be implemented (see hubzilla), but this isn't what mastodon is about. mastodon is the biggest decentralized social network ever made and people can and will use it, even when some critical changes were made. people are used to it and sometimes it gets hard for them to switch. i registered 2 years ago and i needed to relearn everything.
@koyu Wow, it must have been quite a change, yeah.
I still don't see why what I suggested would be contrary to Mastodon's purpose, could you detail what «the reason» you mention is ? Do you mean the possibility to block whole instances and not just accounts ? The imaginary social network I described would still be decentralized, it could still be a home to diverse communities so I'm a bit lost. Would the parts I dreamt of fixing actually be features in your opinion ?