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Comment by fenwick67 | Hacker News Reader

Mastodon has this. SSB doesn't, because your identity is just your message chain and key pair on your computer.

Mastodon doesn’t seem to have a way to move a user account and still have others message or tag one in the same way as before. When you switch from, say mastodon.social to mastodon.xyz, it’s almost like switching from Yahoo Mail to Gmail. There seems to be a way to export one’s following list and move that to the new instance, but this does require informing others of the address change on one’s account.

See https://medium.com/@jimpjorps/a-non-computer-persons-guide-t...

Have I misunderstood how this works?

If you've moved, your followers don't automatically follow you to your new home. But IMO that is fine. If I was following someone on cat.photo.space I might not want to follow them if they move to callgirls.xxx .

IIRC, you get a warning if you try to interact with someone who has moved.

Is it possible to operate a lightweight forwarding service, so my address is portable across servers?

That wouldn't be much different from operating a server yourself, so while it's not impossible, it's more a question of what benefits it provides.

An important feature is maintaining your social network after a fallout with your admin.

I don't want no one to tell me what to do and to prevent that I've got to prevent people from having leverage with me.

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