[VikingCoder]

...so why isn't there another layer of abstraction, where you have like a DNS to register where you (and here's your public key) are currently: you@thatserver, and you sign it... And then you can change (using the same public / private key pair) to be: you@someotherserver?

This seems obvious to me as a necessary feature...?

[kixiQu]

There is a move feature so you can transfer your account and its following relationships to a new server, without your followers having to update anything or any key signing at all. You can't use it if your account has been nuked, but it's not weird in "we're asking you to leave"-type moderation.

[JD557]

There are a few issues for that, but they haven't seen any activity in a while:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3796 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668