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by jazzyjackson 1053 days ago
I can federate message across hosts, fine, but I can't move my username to another host, so it doesn't work like email, because with email the namespace is defined at the DNS level, and I just forward requests to whatever email host I want to use.

Being able to leave one server and join another while maintaining an identity (say, a public key for instance) is on Matrix's to do list, they haven't decided how to do it yet afaik.
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Arathorn 1053 days ago
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/keg... is how we’re doing it, and it’s being implemented currently in Dendrite.
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Semaphor 1053 days ago
With webfinger, you should be able to do exactly that. Migration of accounts is not in E-Mail, but while email has mx servers, Matrix (and most nu-fed stuff, not sure about XMPP) should have webfinger support for that.

edit: Okay, not actually webfinger. But [0] has instructions for the `/well-known/matrix/server` way. It only talks about subdomains, but it should work across domains. Possibly also with the SRV header.

[0]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/b...

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