No, because this happens on a per-admin level, not on a per-user level.

You go on a cruise for two weeks and there's a disagreement about whether to federate with Meta or not. Your admin takes a side, whatever that side might be. Two weeks later, you come back and lose 10% of followers, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, that kind of makes sense to me, you chose that instance because you're OK with that admin making choices for you. Just like how I choose to post comments on HN, and if the admins/moderators tell me to stop something, or that now half my comments are gone for reason X, I can't really cry about it, all I can do is follow what admins do/say or jump ship.

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Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So... basically the bad problem everybody was intending to solve in the first place?

	▲	embedding-shape 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As far as I know, Mastodon didn't really set out to solve that particular problem. But it does seem like ATProto did, as it seems a lot easier to move around in ATProto than Mastodon (and ActivityPub in general).

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bigbadfeline 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> you chose that instance because you're OK with that admin making choices for you

Nobody chooses instances for that, very few know anything about the admin, people just like the content until... in >70% of cases, bait and switch follows

That's why Mastodon is such an incredible mess, it creates the conditions for serious problems, then goes: "you chose what you knew nothing about, nor there's any way to know anything, therefore... you are the problem".