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That is not the same as moving your old account to a new instance. If your old server actually dies, your old account data is just gone. And if it dies before you get a chance to migrate, then you're really out of luck.

I just don't understand why people feel such a strong desire to cling to the federated servers model when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...

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> when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...

which ones are you thinking of?

http://developer.holochain.org

http://dat.foundation

http://scuttlebutt.nz

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801

The original question to which I replied were not talking about the case where the server goes offline. If Facebook were to go offline, you'll have the same problem, only worse.

As for your final remark, I really can't see a good way to handle such a situation at all. And I've never heard about any protocol that can handle it. What protocol are you talking about?

> What protocol are you talking about?

Any social tools built on top of a decentralized database would do it.

- https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db (3Box)

- https://github.com/amark/gun (Iris)

- https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ (Manyverse, Planetary)

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